Hope : my life in football
Powell, Hope, 1966-2016
Book
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 estate 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.
Main title:
Hope : my life in football / by Hope Powell with Marvin Close.
Author:
Powell, Hope, 1966-, authorClose, Marvin, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
v, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781472925565 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.334092796.334092 POW
Local class:
AR.7.01/POW
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2387372