Goals is a very personal collection of life-affirming and inspirational real-life stories from which Chelsea and Italian football legend Gianluca Vialli has drawn great strength and resolve during his ongoing battle with pancreatic cancer.The stories and the individuals involved have been selected by Vialli because they have induced in him a combination of inspiration and admiration, steadfastness and purpose, reassurance and comfort at the time of his greatest challenge. Vialli feels that these stories can do the same for many of us, whatever it might be that we are facing.The result is a beautifully-written and touching narrative which is by turns vital and poignant, spine-tingling and heart-rending.The very last story in Goals is Vialli's own, bravely and movingly chronicling his own personal and ongoing journey.