WinningSTATE-Women's Soccer

WinningSTATE-Women's Soccer
Author: Steve Knight
Publisher: Let's Win! International
Total Pages: 4
Release: 2013-04-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

WinningSTATE–Women's Soccer focuses on competing. It shows players how to take their mental game to a winning level. WinningSTATE improves tournament performance by giving players a mental-toughness skillset to eliminate distractions and crush apprehension, so they can execute in competition better than they do in practice. WinningSTATE inspires players to face the pressure head on, believe in their success and execute with conviction. WinningSTATE is for all ages and abilities. It's for players who consistently want to bring their “A-game” to the competitive arena. Players get the skills to handle the pressure, fiercely compete, and win! Your mind is your most powerful weapon. Train it! COMPETE MENTALLY TOUGH! WinningSTATE-Women's Soccer: The Athlete's Guide to Competing Mentally Tough

Under the Lights and In the Dark

Under the Lights and In the Dark
Author: Gwendolyn Oxenham
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1785781545

Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer takes an unprecedented look inside the lives of professional football players around the world – from precarious positions in underfunded teams and leagues, to sold-out stadiums and bright lights. Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Gwendolyn Oxenham tells the stories of the phenoms, underdogs, and nobodies – players willing to follow the game wherever it takes them. Under the Lights and in the Dark takes us inside the world of women's soccer, following players across the globe, from Portland Thorns star Allie Long, who trains in an underground men's league in New York City; to English national Fara Williams, who hid her homelessness from her teammates while playing for the English national team. Oxenham takes us to Voronezh, Russia, where players battle more than just snowy pitches in pursuing their dream of playing pro, and to a refugee camp in Denmark, where Nadia Nadim, now a Danish international star, honed her skills after her family fled from the Taliban. Whether you're a newcomer to the sport or a die-hard fan, this is an inspiring book about stars' beginnings and adventures, struggles and hardship, and, above all, the time-honored romance of the game.

Women's Soccer

Women's Soccer
Author: Michael Yessis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Soccer
ISBN: 9781930546493

This is the only book that contains information on analysis of women's soccer players' running and cutting actions and how they can most effectively be improved. No other book has the sequential pictures depicting how running and cutting are executed, nor exercises that duplicate the joint actions. The book introduces the concept of specificity of exercise and how the strength, flexibility, and explosive exercises duplicate exactly what happens in running and cutting actions. Also unique to the book is information on how you can improve running and cutting through the use of specialised strength and flexibility exercises. The exercises make it possible to make corrections in technique so that the player can improve her performance very quickly. This is the only book that couples technique and strength training together to produce immediate and most effective results.

Kicking Center

Kicking Center
Author: Rachel Allison
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0813591317

Winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women’s soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men’s territory.

The United States of Soccer

The United States of Soccer
Author: Phil West
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1468314130

“A brisk and informative look at Major League Soccer’s first twenty years . . . West gives MLS fans a worthy chronicle.” (Booklist). In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condition that the U.S. would start a new professional league. The North American Soccer League had failed just four years prior, and the prospects of launching a new league for Americans, who didn’t share the rest of the world’s love for soccer, were both exciting and daunting. The United States of Soccer is the engaging history of Major League Soccer’s bootstrap origins prior to its 1996 launch, its near-demise in the early 2000s, and its surprising resilience and growth as it won recognition from soccer fans around the world. The book also explores the origin of MLS’s superfans who set the tone within MLS stadiums and defining what it is to be a North American soccer fan. Phil West chronicles those fans’ voices – intermingled with league officials, former players and coaches, journalists, and newspaper accounts – to detail MLS’s remarkable journey.

Stand Up and Shout Out

Stand Up and Shout Out
Author: Joan Steidinger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-03-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1538125986

Today, women have greater opportunities to participate in sport than ever before, particularly due to the passage of Title IX in 1972. Yet, despite all this growth, women still struggle to hold leadership positions, become coaches of both girls and boys teams, receive equal pay, and get even adequate coverage in the media. In Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equality in Sports, Joan Steidinger explores the three crucial areas in sport that remain huge concerns for women: leadership, money, and media. Steidinger looks at the number of ways in which women experience vast inequalities by examining topics such as the politics of sport, sexual assault, the #MeToo movement, pay equity, women in coaching positions, and the experiences of women of color and LGBTQ athletes. Interviews with leading authorities in the field and prominent female athletes are interwoven throughout to add both expert and personal perspectives to the conversation. Stand Up and Shout Out does more than justinform readers about these important issues; its purpose is to create enlightened discussions around the unequal treatment of women and present readers with “action steps” so we can all become active contributors toward improving this situation. This is an ideal time to fight for women’s equality in sport, as it draws attention to the growing need for advocacy for girls and women around the world in all areas of life.

Women on the Ball

Women on the Ball
Author: Sue Lopez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997
Genre: Soccer
ISBN:

Women's football is the fastest growing international sport for women and Women on the Ball is the first book to give a comprehensive account of the women's game. It details the pioneering players and clubs, and includes many interviews

All Heart

All Heart
Author: Carli Lloyd
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1328695700

In the summer of 2015, the U.S. women’s national soccer team won the World Cup behind an epic performance by Carli Lloyd. Carli, a midfielder, scored three goals in the first sixteen minutes—the greatest goal-scoring effort in the history of World Cup finals. But there was a time when Carli almost quit soccer. She struggled with doubts and low confidence. In All Heart, adapted from When Nobody Was Watching specifically for younger readers, Carli tells the full inspiring story of her journey to the top of the soccer world—an honest, action-packed account that takes readers inside the mind of a hardworking athlete. Includes two full-color photo inserts.