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Portrait photographer PEROU shot football star Eniola Aluko for the Guardian Weekend. One of only 11 female footballers to play over 100 games for England, the Lioness was once called the "Wayne Rooney of women's football" The article states:

She has scored some of the Lionesses’ most memorable goals, was the first female pundit on Match Of The Day, and is a qualified lawyer, having graduated from Brunel University London with a first in 2008. But it is as a whistleblower that she is destined to be best remembered. And, like many whistleblowers, she has spent the subsequent years being rubbished by those she exposed.

Now she has written a memoir. They Don’t Teach This is a fascinating examination of her multiple identities – British and Nigerian, a girl in a boy’s world, footballer and academic, a kid from an estate with upper-middle-class parents, a God-fearing rebel. But the book is at its best when she reveals exactly what happened after she accused the England management team of racism, and the Football Association of turning a blind eye to it. Aluko does not hold back – and few people from the football establishment emerge with their reputation intact.

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Project featured: on 20th November 2022

Eniola Aluko Portrait for The Guardian Weekend by PEROU

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