Schade: Before me Hope was sympathetic ...

Actually, I just got on the biography of Hope Solo. One of the best footballers in the world, not only abroad experiences in Sweden and France gathered, but witnessed the birth of the first two (unfortunately very short-lived) US professional leagues WUSA and WPS and was with the National Olympic and World silver medalist, was a lot about everyday life have to tell a Profifußballerin. These expectations Solos also met biography. Maßlos disturbed me however the private part - which should be the reason, however, that the biography in America one of the best-selling football books at all.

Now it may admittedly not really surprise the reader that a biography also reports about private and family, and in moderation, however, is also nothing wrong with. But Hope Solo is dedicated to felt most of the book of their extremely complex family situation: the criminal, later homeless and suspected for murder father, the alcoholic mother, the relationship of parents to one another, the unexpected reunion with her father after years of silence, his sudden death - all of which is (at least me) described in far too much detail joy. In addition, the whole thing gets often an overly sentimental touch, as if Hope reversed quotes over long passages from actual or fictitious letters of their father to them or or describes in detail how it in games for the national team some of its ashes took to the field after his death, to disperse them.

A second - with me a bitter aftertaste leave Direction - aspect: Hope Solo presents itself as a rather unsympathetic, very egocentric footballer, the people who do not equally believe in them as they themselves, quickly punished with cold contempt, and all the time and constantly unfairly treated. Unfortunately, it was several times apparently actually wronged (about the former coach Greg Ryan and the world champion generation - this once), and it falls tremendously difficult, in view of all the other Why are all just so angry "to me - engage passages it. Tearful she complained that she was not chosen by a friend as maid of honor, and calls quite brazenly understand that this friendship largely was for years a one-way street. It was just a professional athlete with a busy life. National coach Pia Sundhage, initially dotes, harvests angry words when the Ersatzkeeperin began in a friendly before the 2011 World Cup, to be convinced of their performance level, instead zuzubilligen the long injured Hope Solo every conceivable use Minute. Hope asks other maximum consideration (to their personal circumstances such as to her father's death, injuries, etc.), but did not hesitate after the lost World Cup semi-final in 2007, in which coach Greg Ryan surprising her rival Briana Scurry had put into the goal to announce publicly that the team with her - Solo - would have won. In detail it describes the resulting conflict with the coach (who is said to have attacked even physically in a conversation) and their teammates, describes - in fact strange - meetings where the team sat in judgment. The described by their situations are so absurd that they remember quarrels a middle school class: When Hope stepped into an elevator, other teammates went out. She came after training in the pool, left him the other. In the hotel hall you walked past each other, as if you do not know. There have been attempts to bounce Hope to which it is entitled premiums and exclude them from the post-World Cup tour of the national team. Again and again public apologies were demanded of her and the tax on pre-formulated Association press statements.

These passages make the real attraction of the book, because they reveal a lot of the inner workings of the US women's national team. Likewise, you can learn a lot about the (sometimes quite amateurish) conduct of US professional clubs, which consistently not too longevity was previously granted. The NWSL the third attempt, a women's professional league was launched a few months ago, in the United States to establish. Hope Solo is obviously there - with the club Seattle Reign. The project seems to be on something financially secure feet - so are sponsored by the football associations of USA, Canada and Mexico, for example, the salaries of the internationals. In addition, the start went quite promising - in the stronghold of Portland were on average 13,000 spectators. Still remains to be seen whether the demand in the long term is sufficient to support a professional league.

Conclusion: Hope Solos biography is a worth buying if one is interested in the (American) women's football, because there is no comparable work, which granted such an insight. Must accept it but Hope Solo's too maudlin told (and in any case I do not really interest) family history and the fact that one afterwards might not be the goalkeeper quite so sympathetic with the beautiful name.