The summer spelled World Cup bronze, and with Champions League qualification and cup success at club level, 2019 goes down as a golden year in Julia Zigiotti Olme’s burgeoning career. While the 21-year-old has happily just slipped into standby mode…
This year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup suggested that France’s Kadidiatou Diani is a few strides down the Champs-Élysées to becoming one of the world’s most absorbing attacking performers. Along with instinct, ardour and skill, music is another ingredient to get…
She comes from a city with a power anthem in its soul, and Finland captain Tinja-Riikka Korpela is feeling in pop-rockin’ harmony with her new club Everton. A wise, warm-hearted presence, she brings awareness gleaned from time at some of…
The beaming expression has often swiftly followed a successful raid on an opponent’s penalty area during Réda Johnson’s decade in English football. He is the Marseille-born former Benin international who acquired a love affair for life with Sheffield, but the…
The shrewd goalscorer Sydney FC get to call upon in Adam Le Fondre had the hard land of the English Football League on which to sharpen his craft. Teammates and coaches have played a part through the years for the…