From makeshift fields to sold-out stadiums, the Matildas midfielder has grown in step with the game
Hayley Raso remembers a time when she used to play purely for the love of football. Her passion for the game still burns, but it wasn’t that long ago when Australia’s female footballers had to travel far to train on some makeshift field – sometimes an archery range – to prepare for a W-League match that would ultimately be played in front of a just smattering of fans.
“When I look back at where I used to train, how far I used to travel and what I used to do to be able to play, you were not really getting much out of it except for your love for the game,” Raso says on a Zoom call towards the end of her season – and contract – with Women’s Super League side Manchester City.
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