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Soccerwomen: The Icons, Rebels, Stars, and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781568589213)
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xFrom Michelle Akers to Megan Rapinoe, bold and inspiring profiles of the pioneers, champions and future heroines of women's soccer around the world.
Women's soccer has come a long way. The first organized games on record -- which took place three hundred years ago in the Scottish Highlands -- were exhibition matches, where single women played against married women while available men looked on, seeking a potential mate. Today, champions like Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Brazil's Marta and China's Sun Wen, have inspired girls around the world to pick up the beautiful game for love of the sport. Inevitably, given the hardships and discrimination they face, women who play soccer professionally are so much more than elite athletes. They are survivors, campaigners, political advocates, feminists, LGBTQ activists, working moms, staunch opponents of racial discrimination and inspirational role models for many. Based on original interviews with over 50 current and former players and coaches, this book celebrates these remarkable women and their achievements against all odds.
Author: Gemma Clarke
ISBN-10: 1568589212
ISBN-13: 9781568589213
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2019 pg. 14
Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 101
Women's soccer has come a long way. The first organized games on record -- which took place three hundred years ago in the Scottish Highlands -- were exhibition matches, where single women played against married women while available men looked on, seeking a potential mate. Today, champions like Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Brazil's Marta and China's Sun Wen, have inspired girls around the world to pick up the beautiful game for love of the sport. Inevitably, given the hardships and discrimination they face, women who play soccer professionally are so much more than elite athletes. They are survivors, campaigners, political advocates, feminists, LGBTQ activists, working moms, staunch opponents of racial discrimination and inspirational role models for many. Based on original interviews with over 50 current and former players and coaches, this book celebrates these remarkable women and their achievements against all odds.
Author: Gemma Clarke
ISBN-10: 1568589212
ISBN-13: 9781568589213
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2019 pg. 14
Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 101
By Gemma Clarke
xGemma Clarke is a British sports journalist based in the US. She has written about soccer for the Guardian, the Observer, the Times (UK), the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard. She was writer and editor of the League Leader and the first female publications editor for a Premier League soccer club. She wrote minute-by-minute reports on the FIFA Men's World Cup for the Guardian online, as well as reporting on the Women's European Championships and the Men's Blind World Cup. She worked as a production assistant at Sky Sports News and as a stringer for the sports news agency Hayters Teamwork.
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