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Lucy Zeezou's Goal
Lucy's family is famous for two things in Italy: soccer and fashion. Her pushy mother wants her to model for the family's fashion label. Even worse, Lucy's father—captain of Milan’s premier soccer team—agrees. But Lucy has been leading a double life, playing soccer on the side when she isn’t modeling. When she and her mother move from Milan to Sydney to be closer to her grandparents, Lucy has the chance to come clean about who she really is and what she really wants to do with her life.
282 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2008
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About the author
Liz Deep-Jones
2 books2 followersLiz Deep-Jones established herself as a journalist and presenter on SBS TV's premier nightly sports program, Toyota World Sports. Her warm and bubbly personality made her an appealing and favoured celebrity by the viewing public. Liz has secured many high profile and memorable interviews during close to 20 years of media coverage in Australia, including the likes of Socceroos coach Graham Arnold, Prince Albert of Monaco, IOC President Jacques Rogge, Margaret Whitlam, Lleyton Hewitt, Pat Rafter, Ian Thorpe, Anthony Mundine, and George Gregan.
Career highlights also include reporting on the 1998 Football World Cup in Paris and breaking stories on the plight of female athletes fighting for Water Polo's place as an Olympic sport in Sydney 2000. Liz also met her idol, Nelson Mandela, while chasing a story about the indigenous community's threat to protest during the Olympics in Sydney.
Liz recently produced the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards - the "Deadlys" - held at the Sydney Opera House for SBS TV. She's also worked on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Current Affairs program, Living Black as a journalist. Liz has also judged at the prestigious 2005 Walkley Awards.
In her role as UNICEF Australia Ambassador, Liz has hosted many charity events, donning shin pads and boots in celebrity soccer and cricket matches - facing the likes of Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Glen McGrath, and Graham Arnold. She's also hosted and supported events for the Starlight Foundation, Variety Club, and Randwick Children's Hospital.
Liz has hosted many events including executive panels for Optus Networks events for close to four thousand staff in Sydney and Melbourne. She's also the voice for an Australian Open tennis highlights show which was broadcast internationally during the popular Grand Slam in January 2007.
Career highlights also include reporting on the 1998 Football World Cup in Paris and breaking stories on the plight of female athletes fighting for Water Polo's place as an Olympic sport in Sydney 2000. Liz also met her idol, Nelson Mandela, while chasing a story about the indigenous community's threat to protest during the Olympics in Sydney.
Liz recently produced the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards - the "Deadlys" - held at the Sydney Opera House for SBS TV. She's also worked on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Current Affairs program, Living Black as a journalist. Liz has also judged at the prestigious 2005 Walkley Awards.
In her role as UNICEF Australia Ambassador, Liz has hosted many charity events, donning shin pads and boots in celebrity soccer and cricket matches - facing the likes of Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Glen McGrath, and Graham Arnold. She's also hosted and supported events for the Starlight Foundation, Variety Club, and Randwick Children's Hospital.
Liz has hosted many events including executive panels for Optus Networks events for close to four thousand staff in Sydney and Melbourne. She's also the voice for an Australian Open tennis highlights show which was broadcast internationally during the popular Grand Slam in January 2007.
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July 30, 2011
It was Awesum!!!!!!!!!!
A great book that kept me reading from the beginning!
Since im a soccer player of seven years i know what she means by the boys dont treat you equally if ur a girl but you know what boys can stuff it up there butts!
A great book that kept me reading from the beginning!
Since im a soccer player of seven years i know what she means by the boys dont treat you equally if ur a girl but you know what boys can stuff it up there butts!
September 24, 2009
I loved it. It was about a girl whos dad is a soccer superstar and a mum whos a fashion designer. Lucy likes soccer but her parents dont allow her to play it. She has to move from milan, Italy to sydney, Australia, where she joins an all boys soccer team (disguised as a boy).
June 13, 2009
The cover art and premise of this novel really excited me when I spotted it on the bookstore shelf. I knew it was a concept that would really grab some of my student's attention strongly but unfortunately it didn't set my world on fire.
Lucy Zeezou's Goal appears to be a novel trying to be many things; a family drama, a coming of age story, an action-adventure, a sporting tale and an exploration of social conscience. There are books that are able to balance many agendas to create a cohesive story but I didn't feel that this was one of the them. Some chapters I felt as though I was reading a completely different story with a heroine with the same name. While it's clear the author had great intentions - the empowerment of young girls - I think she may have tried to accomplish too much.
My main concern is the dialogue throughout the novel. It never comes across as particularly authentic. Characters didn't have distinct voices and the vocabulary of the teens is a little dated. At one point the protagonist (who's 14) accuses another teen of behaving in "a childish manner" and having taught kids, I have never heard them speak to one another in that way. The dialogue makes it hard to involve the reader in the story and while it has many elements that will be attractive to teen girls (fashion, sport, boys), it doesn't hit the spot.
Lucy Zeezou's Goal appears to be a novel trying to be many things; a family drama, a coming of age story, an action-adventure, a sporting tale and an exploration of social conscience. There are books that are able to balance many agendas to create a cohesive story but I didn't feel that this was one of the them. Some chapters I felt as though I was reading a completely different story with a heroine with the same name. While it's clear the author had great intentions - the empowerment of young girls - I think she may have tried to accomplish too much.
My main concern is the dialogue throughout the novel. It never comes across as particularly authentic. Characters didn't have distinct voices and the vocabulary of the teens is a little dated. At one point the protagonist (who's 14) accuses another teen of behaving in "a childish manner" and having taught kids, I have never heard them speak to one another in that way. The dialogue makes it hard to involve the reader in the story and while it has many elements that will be attractive to teen girls (fashion, sport, boys), it doesn't hit the spot.
February 10, 2012
Lucy Zeezous goal is a novel by Liz Deep Jones. It's about a girl called Lucy and she is torn between fashion and football. her mum is a famous fashion designer and hopes that lucy will follow in her footsteps but all lucy wants to do is play football.
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May 7, 2011a bit boring
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