{"product_id":"9781526668516-striker-and-the-clock","title":"The Striker and the Clock","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Will appeal to readers ready and willing to embrace the deep affinities among the craft and discipline of sport’ \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Striker and the Clock\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThreading between floodlit pitches, sparse dorm rooms, and doctor’s offices, Cloepfil outlines an obsessive pursuit: one that sees her begin each day by touching the ball a thousand times, running sprints alone on empty fields and practicing near-constant visualization and revisualization of triumph and despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Georgia Cloepfil has written a nimble, breathtaking book about the beautiful game, and about her beautiful, brutal life playing it' Louisa Thomas, sports writer for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e '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' Leanne Shapton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41601107460193,"sku":"9781526668516","price":12.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28901888.jpg?v=1723300045","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526668516-striker-and-the-clock","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}