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The Striker and the Clock
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Georgia Cloepfil
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An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics
‘Riveting ... A paean to the beautiful game’ Los Angeles Times
‘A compelling debut’ Times Literary Supplement
In The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between teammates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and dedication, in which players try in vain to outpace a clock that ticks down toward an indeterminate ending.
What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have the compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.©2024 Georgia Cloepfil (P)2024 Penguin Random House LLC
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Will appeal to readers ready and willing to embrace the deep affinities among the craft and discipline of sport … An allusive, self-aware, culturally aware and, above all, thoughtful book
I loved it. Fascinating, thoughtful ... It contained so much of what I love and find endlessly interesting about football – its magician manipulation of time, how the body and mind are fused as one liquid instinct ... A very lovely thinker and writer (REBECCA WATSON)
A book of uncommonly honest insight, full of wisdom won not through adulation but persistence
Georgia Cloepfil has written a nimble, breathtaking book about the beautiful game, and about her beautiful, brutal life playing it. It reveals so much about the strange, hard path of a young woman pursuing a career as a professional soccer player, but it is far more interesting than an ordinary story of passion, promise, setback, and success. It is, instead, a cleareyed exploration of what passion, promise, setback, and success even mean (Louisa Thomas, sportswriter for the New Yorker)
Riveting ... A paean to the beautiful game, the book chronicles how Cloepfil overcame adversity to strike joy
Former footballer Georgia Cloepfil offers a unique and fascinating insight into the mind of a professional athlete in this memoir. Written in 90 “minute long” passages, Cloepfil covers the joys of camaraderie, the agony of injury, and what it means to push yourself to your absolute limits in pursuit of what can inevitably only ever be time-limited excellence
With the deft and determined movements of a seasoned player, Georgia Cloepfil writes about what it means to endure and what it means to leave a sport behind. In her first book, The Striker and the Clock, Cloepfil examines her elusive ambitions and redirected energies (Leanne Shapton, author of Swimming Studies)
This book introduced me to the poetry of soccer and the humble nomad that is the professional female soccer player. Cloepfil’s accomplishments and sacrifices while on the clock left me inspired; her talent on the page has me in awe (Courtney Maum, author of The Year of the Horses)
As poetic as anything you’ll read on the early days of pro women’s soccer, on the joys and grim realities of an athlete’s life, on pain tolerance, on the art of sportswriting itself … Cloepfil’s writing helps readers understand why certain athletes, their brains and marriages falling apart, won't just retire
Georgia Cloepfil is that rare athlete who can write well about their sport and their passion … In ninety sharp entries mirroring the ninety minutes of play, Cloepfil captures what it’s like to fight so hard to play the game you love
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