An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a
beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics 'Riveting ... A paean to the
beautiful game' Los Angeles Times 'A compelling debut' Times Literary Supplement In The
Striker and the Clock 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. What 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.
