'Soccer Matters Very Much, Every Day': Player Migration and Motivation in Professional Women's Soccer.

Date
2014-08-20
Authors
Williams, Jean
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Publisher
Routledge
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Abstract
Using elite interviews with PR China women's national team goalkeeper Gao Hong, Australia's Alison Forman and Irish-Canadian Ciara McCormack, this chapter explores the role of movement, migration and assimilation in professional women's soccer (Association Football) from 1971 onwards.
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Keywords
migration, Soccer, Association football, Women, players
Citation
Williams, J. (2014) 'Soccer Matters Very Much, Every Day': Player Migration and Motivation in Professional Women's Soccer. In: Sine Agergaard and Nina Clara Tiesler (eds) Women Soccer and Transational Migration (London and New York : Routledge) pp. 20-33
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