From the publisher:
Once silenced, now celebrated, women’s football has risen from grassroots to glory over the past hundred years.
Maybe you were told “girls don’t play football”?
Maybe seeing a young girl proudly wearing her idol’s name emblazoned on her football shirt brings a tear to your eye?
Or maybe you’ve wondered how women’s football went from being played in front of one man and his labrador to selling out Wembley Stadium?
If you nodded to any of these, this book will take you on a journey from the sidelines to the centre circle of the history of women’s football. Discover why the FA banned women from playing. Learn how a girl writing to a newspaper helped spark the Women’s FA Cup. And hear the inspiring stories of trailblazing women who paved the way for football’s current stars.
With heartfelt anecdotes and real-life stories from ex-Lionesses, ”She Can Kick It” offers a captivating and easy-to-read account of the fantastic rise of women’s football across the world. From young women who defied the odds to today’s superstars, this book is a tribute to the passion, resilience, and love of the game that has united generations of women.
Clare herself fell in love with football in the 1980s. Watching the Lionesses play at Wembley 35 years later brought up a bucketload of emotions. Driven by these emotions and a need to understand the game’s hidden history, she set out on a journey to uncover the stories of the women who made it possible.
This book is the result.
"With a passion for the game and a natural ability to tell the currently unknown stories, I was not surprised when I found out that Clare was planning on writing a book. Her own personal interest in learning more about the sport has led to discoveries of amazing untold tales which deserve to be heard from years gone by. With her own passion and the power in which she writes, there is nobody better to cover a history of the game." ~ Helen Rowe-Willcocks
The author:
Clare McEwen fell in love with football as a girl in the 1980s. She spent countless hours with a ball at her feet but wasn’t allowed to play in a team (although she did briefly try to start her own - another story!). Watching the Lionesses play at Wembley decades later brought up a bucketload of emotions. Driven by these emotions and a need to understand the game’s hidden history, she set out on a journey to uncover the stories of the women who made it possible. During this journey, she began writing for The Women's Football Magazine and coaching her son's football team. And now she has published her first book, She Can Kick It, a history of women's football across the world.
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