{"product_id":"the-striker-and-the-clock-by-georgia-cloepfil-9781526668516","title":"The Striker and the Clock","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Will appeal to readers ready and willing to embrace the deep affinities among the craft and discipline of sport’ \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Striker and the Clock\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 practising near-constant visualisation and revisualisation of triumph and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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 \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487657017580,"sku":"9781526668516","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6a74bf99927cf41dd5361893fc1d1e67.jpg?v=1775771021","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-striker-and-the-clock-by-georgia-cloepfil-9781526668516","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}