We are proud to announce that Seattle Reign’s Kim Little will write the Foreword to the inaugural edition of Prost Amerika’s first ever Women’s Soccer Yearbook called, 2016 – The Year in Womens Soccer.
Little made international headlines in May when she won the highly respected award BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year award ahead of players like Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn, Gaelle Enganamouit and Amandine Henry.
We were therefore delighted when she accepted our invitation to headline the Book adding:
“The growth and popularity of the women’s game across the world, and in particular in the USA, over the last 15 years has been huge and I’m thankful to have experienced it.
“The opportunity to support and contribute to the Prost Amerika’s Women’s Soccer Yearbook allows me to give something back to the game that has given me so many opportunities and experiences.
“I’m happy to play a part in helping continue the growth and exposure the sport deserves.”
Little plays for Seattle Reign in the NWSL and represents Scotland at international level. She also represented Team GB at the London Olympics.
She is the NWSL’s all time leading scorer with a current total of 31 goals and those goals helped guide her club side to two successive Shield wins in 2014 and 2015. In addition, she won the Golden Boot and the Most Valuable Player Awards in 2014.
At international level, her national side Scotland stand one game away from qualification for their first major finals, EURO2017 and could indeed be guaranteed that qualification before even playing their last qualifying match, away to Iceland.
She has scored 46 goals in 117 internationals for The Dark Blues.
Keelin Winters and Megan Rapinoe celebrate another Kim Little goal
In addition to Kim Little, special guest writers will include Jamie Trecker, the first ever soccer columnist on ESPN.com who will write on Women’s Soccer in the Media and London journalist Asif Burhan covering the 2016 Women’s Soccer Olympic tournament in Rio.
There will also be player profiles on some of the top USWNT internationals such as Heather O’Reilly, Hope Solo and Christie Rampone as well as coverage of controversies that had people talking about Women’s Soccer throughout the year.
As Little said, it is hoped the book will help grow all aspects of Women’s Soccer and one chapter will give advice and encourage people to get involved in women’s soccer as a journalist and photographer.
Joining Little, Trecker, and Burhan will be the cream of Prost Amerika’s Women’s Soccer beat writers including Women’s Soccer Editor-in-Chief Megan Cleary who will profile those NWSL players who made headlines in Rio.
Prost Amerika has always backed Supporter Culture and they have not been forgotten with a chapter devoted to the Supporters Groups who cheer on their NWSL club sides, as well as another on how the American Outlaws support the USWNT. There is something for everyone in 2016 – The Year in Womens Soccer.
As well as writing, the book will also contain color photographs from Prost Amerika’s beat photographers across North America who cover the NWSL every week and the USWNT internationals
2016 – The Year in Women’s Soccer is scheduled to be on sale in early December, in time for a great seasonal present.
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