Some stick it out because they just want to play.
Meanwhile, they’re being shot up with unnamed “vitamins.” Some go home early. International players sign for Russian teams, only to find a league awash with laundered money, which often doesn’t trickle down to the players even in the small amounts specified in their contracts. Inevitably some chapters are stronger and more interesting than others. She has a a nose (eye?) for a good story, and there are lots of telling details.
Oxenham’s book is more a collection of profiles or themed chapters (there’s one on “comeback moms” and another on the work women choose after soccer) than a coherent narrative or systematic exploration of women’s soccer. If you tune in just for Olympic or World Cup matches, or if you just have a soft spot for “scrappy underdog makes good” stories, you’ll find something to love here. You don’t have to be a soccer super-fan to enjoy this book. 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. 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. 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 Fara Williams, who hid her homelessness from her teammates while playing for the English national team. If this was Brazil, the mecca of futebol, what did the women's game look like in other countries?
The team hitchhiked to practice, shared their field with a horse and wore hand-me-downs from the men's team. In 2004, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played futebol feminino for Santos FC, Brazil.
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