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Enduring Spirit: Restoring Professional Women's Soccer to Washington Online jmOhM [FREE] Enduring Spirit: Restoring Professional Women's Soccer to Washington Online [jmOhM.ebook] Enduring Spirit: Restoring Professional Women's Soccer to Washington Pdf Free Beau Dure DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #3270948 in Books Dure Beau 2013-12-17Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .62 x 6.00l, .81 #File Name: 1494716518272 pagesEnduring Spirit Restoring Professional Women s Soccer to Washington | File size: 24.Mb Beau Dure : Enduring Spirit: Restoring Professional Women's Soccer to Washington before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Enduring Spirit: Restoring Professional Women's Soccer to Washington: 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Interesting though not profound coverage of a women's soccer teamBy Kevin W. ParkerIt was a season for the ages, though not in the way that the team and its supporters would have liked. The Washington Spirit had the third-worst season in the history of women's professional soccer, were shut out 10 times, had a 542-minute scoreless streak, and scored a mere eight goals from the run of play. They fired their head coach halfway through the season, then brought in a new coach who the previous year had been in charge of their U-20's.And Beau Dure was there for all of it. Formerly a soccer columnist for USA Today, he asked and was allowed to follow the team on an almost daily basis from the first practice up until the final match, including attending closed practices and riding on the team bus to and from away games.Disclaimer: Beau and I worked sometimes literally elbow-to-elbow during the season in the Spirit pressbox, he covering the team for this book and his SportsMyriad soccer blog, me covering them for the women's soccer blog AllWhiteKit. I'm credited in the acknowledgements, have a footnote of my own (#63), and am gloating a little bit that I was the first to publish the photo he uses on the cover. That may make me a little biased and probably a less-than-ideal person to review it since I am so close to the subject matter. I lived through this season, and reading this book was like going back and rereading one's own diary, returning to memories both painful and pleasant. The typical reader will not be quite so familiar with the team and its goings- on.I first like the way he lays the groundwork, not starting with the NWSL but going back to the heady days of the WUSA, through WPS and the Borislow debacle (you can't talk about Washington women's pro soccer without going into that). Alas, even Beau is unable to find out why John and Maureen Hendricks - after supporting the Washington Freedom through three leagues and even no league - suddenly dropped the team like a hot potato, leaving it in the hands of the most divisive owner in WoProSo history. Then the DC United Women come into the picture as the marquee local women's club team for two years at the amateur level before providing the core that becomes the Washington Spirit of the National Women's Soccer League.He does a good job of providing such background throughout, dropping in US U-23, European league, and W-League happenings when they are relevant. For example, he notes that Stephanie Ochs - probably considered an underachiever by Spirit fans - led the U-23's to victory in March's Four Nations tournament and was named tournament MVP after scoring the winning goal.Once he gets going, though, he maintains a strict chronological format, complete with headings noting the date. But he's still looking mainly at the players. He first introduces the allocated national teamers (January 11), then the college draft picks (January 18), then the supplemental draftees (February 7). Interviews are the primary source of information, but he also inserts excerpts from blog posts and Twitter feeds - especially from the players - when they provide illumination. He reviews the games we all saw but also describes what went on in practices, both technically and how the players interacted.That being said, it's not a terribly deep book, and deliberately so. "I tried to ... make myself part of the scenery. I figured people wanted less of me and more of the players. And I figured people might want to draw their own conclusions on what happened." You're not going to get a whole lot of analysis on what went wrong with the Spirit, whether or not head coach Mike Jorden should have been fired, or his thoughts on how the team might be fixedBut he gives enough of an impression that the reader can draw their own conclusions. The team was wracked with injuries: Caroline Miller and Colleen Williams had season-ending injuries, Candace Chapman was never healthy, Toni Pressley arrived later than expected, then got hurt about as soon as she got comfortable enough with the team to impress. He does point out that the team had an age gap in the middle, with a bunch of veteran players and a whole lot of youngsters a few years out of college, but no one in their early 20's with a few years under their belts, the Nikki Marshall/Allie Long generation. The overall impression, though, is that the team, while having one of the league's weaker rosters, was as much the victim of bad breaks - injuries, unfortunate bounces, uncalled fouls, invalid offside calls - as suffering from not having the talent in the first place.Still, the focus is mostly on the players, and there are insights here, such as learning that the player with the best sense of humor on the team was Conny Pohlers. There's Caroline Miller's intensity and Lori Lindsey's leadership, Ashlyn Harris's eloquence and Chantel Jones's enthusiasm. In addition to the players, there are supporting characters, like trainer Emily Fortunato (with an even better sense of humor than Pohlers) and noisy superfan Stewart Small. The arc of the senior amateur team, the Spirit Reserves, with some players who tried out for the senior team but didn't quite make it, forms a secondary thread as they make it to the W-League Final Four. Some of their players like U-20 national teamer Andi Sullivan, Georgetown assistant coach Hayley Siegel, and part-time deejay Diana Weigel get some discussion.There are situational revelations as well, even for me, such as that when the team was struggling Ali Krieger's father Ken was suggested as a consultant by some of the senior players, only to be turned down. That might sound like nepotism, but Ken Krieger is a bedrock figure in northern Virginia soccer, as legitimate a leadership figure as Jorden himself.So if even I can learn a few things, surely the typical reader can learn a lot. I think this should be a real page-turner for someone interested in women's soccer.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Lost OpportunityBy cgcisNot sure who this book was written for. If fans of the Spirit, the endless regurgitation of games that were painful to watch the first time seems cruel. If casual fans of women's soccer, why would they care about a blow-by-blow of games already in the book? If non-fans, why would they buy the book in the first place? Honestly, I expected so much more.How many times is someone allowed unfettered access to a professional sports league at the moment of inception? I wager not many. I can think of a million questions I would have asked in Dure's place, none of which appear in the book. Questions of the owner, the coaching staff, the front office people, the trainers, the announcers, the people running the cameras and trying to provide online streaming in this brave new world of immediate access. Until the last few pages of the book there was virtually no insight into any of these areas, and when it did appear, it was sparse. And questions of the players--like, why do they do this crazy thing? What sacrifices have they made to pursue this dream? What toll has it taken, personally and in their professional life? What are their hopes?I could go on and on, but won't. Even now, months after I read the book, I'm still upset about the magnitude of the blown opportunity. If you read this in anticipation of buying the book, all I can say is, if you're looking for insight into the inner workings of the team, look elsewhere. If you want a play-by-play of the games that comprised the Spirit's inaugural season, go for it.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. awesome insightBy KatAbsolutely loved this book. Started it this morning and couldn't put it down! Very well done! Hope there is another women's soccer book in the future. All sports require resilience and perseverance. Women's soccer requires more than most. Two U.S. leagues have disappeared in the past decade. Players have put in countless hours of work for limited opportunities. For this book, veteran women's soccer writer Beau Dure tracked the Washington Spirit through its debut season, from the first league draft to chilly early-season practices and the frustrations of a long winless streak. He watched a young team react to a coaching change, injuries, bus rides that were longer than they should have been, hundreds of autograph-seekers at every game, the occasional stray dog on the practice field, and the challenges of playing at a professional level.
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