Hope: My Life in Football - Hardcover

Powell, Hope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472925564 ISBN 13: 9781472925565

Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport, 2016

Synopsis

Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a kid from a Greenwich housing project became one of the most influential women in world football.

A revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years, manager of England, Hope Powell will forever be the face of English women's football. She took the national game from amateurism to top-flight performance--and dedicated herself to opening up the sport to hundreds of thousands of girls and young women at the grassroots level.

A black, gay woman who's been a relentless pioneer for equal rights--the story of her battles against authority are an object lesson in how determination and bravery can make a lasting change.

About this title

About the Author

Hope Powell was a revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years, manager of the England women's football team. She now works as an elite coach and technical adviser around the world for FIFA and UEFA, and as an advocate for change and development in women's football. She has been coaching QPR's male Academy players, and working with women prisoners in Peterborough Jail. She lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472925564
• ISBN 13: 9781472925565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272