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The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard
Book · 2015
The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard
8–12Best for kids★ 4.3
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The USMNT goalkeeper tells his own story: growing up in North Brunswick raised by his mother, being diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at eleven, and the 2014 World Cup match against Belgium where he made sixteen saves. He is direct about the tics and about what coaches and teammates got right and wrong.
Why we picked it
It is the American pathway story told at a kid's reading level, and the only well-known soccer memoir written by someone who played the whole thing with a neurological condition.
