Kick Like a Girl: The Power, Grit, and Glory of Women’s Soccer

A Manifesto for the Game They’ve Already Taken Over

De: Southerland

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Kick Like a Girl is not a sports book. It’s a war cry. A manifesto. A blood-and-sweat-streaked portrait of American women’s soccer as it actually exists—brilliant, brutal, and entirely its own revolution. From the bruised knees of U12 club tournaments to the electric chaos of college rivalries and the battlefield of World Cup finals, this book tracks how women in the U.S. didn’t just join the sport—they rebuilt it from the ground up.

Told in 30 relentless chapters with blistering honesty and unflinching depth, Kick Like a Girl dismantles the lazy comparisons to the men’s game and instead reframes women’s soccer as a cultural force with its own tactics, its own violence, its own beauty. It dives into the scholarship arms race, the economic injustice of pay-to-play, the political firestorm of equal pay, the rise of the NWSL, and the genius of the players who didn’t wait for space—they took it.

This is not just a history. It’s a reckoning. A challenge to every gatekeeper, every sideline whisper, every institution that still treats the sport as an afterthought. This book is for the girl sprinting after a ball at 7 a.m. practice, the parent in the bleachers, the coach rewriting systems from the ground up, and the boy who finally realizes the best player on his team wears a ponytail.

The game isn’t changing.

It’s already changed.

And this is the story of how they did it—with grit, grace, and unapologetic domination.