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

TLS

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

WASHINGTON POST

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

LOS ANGELES TIMES

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

EVENING STANDARD