Hope: My Life in Football
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Hope: My Life in Football

Hope: My Life in Football

by Hope Powell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472925565
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 10/25/2016
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 London in the Seventies 5

2 Three Lions 22

3 Paying to Play 34

4 From the Old Kent Road to Sweden 47

5 Croydon 56

6 Sweet FA 64

7 The Desk in the Corner 73

8 On to 2001 83

9 Pro Licence 100

10 Ups and Downs 110

11 2005 115

12 China, 2007 134

13 Big Steps Forward 151

14 No Hope 174

15 Top Ten 182

16 London 2012 200

17 2013 211

18 FIFA 229

19 2015 and the World Cup 238

Career Statistics as England Manager 250

Acknowledgements 257

Index 259

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