Book description
Fashion, modelling, dance . . . football?Everyone's making plans for
Lucy's future. But will she get to pursue her own dreams on the pitch?
Lucy's family is famous for two things in Italy: football and fashion.
They're prime paparazzi fodder. Lucy's pushy Australian-born mother
wants her to model for the family's fashion label. Even worse - Lucy's
father agrees. He's the captain of Milan's premier football team, so
shouldn't he be happy that Lucy's more passionate about playing the
beautiful game than being a beautiful clothes horse? But Lucy's been
leading a double life, playing on the sly. And when she and her mother
move from Milan to Sydney to be near Lucy's Australian grandparents,
Lucy has to find a new team. Eventually she'll have to come clean about
who she really is and what she really wants. Liz 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 has 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.
