The 33-year-old is having a do-over of her career following years living in silence.
A DANCER. An artist. A joy.
Ask people to talk about how Sinéad Farrelly plays football and there’s an ebullient consensus.
“She’s kind of like an artist, you’re not sure what’s going to come out but you know, that she’s very capable of making a great song or a great painting when she plays because she’s got that creativity. That is hard to teach,” her college coach Steve Swanson says during a recent phone call with The 42.
“It’s something just so natural and pure to watch you play,” her former teammate Michelle Betos tells Farrelly herself on the podcast, Counter Attack.
“And I think that’s a gift. It looks like dance. Like you’re dancing on the ball. Like you’re smooth as you go. It looks like what I believe it’s supposed to look like when you’re meant to do something.”
On the same show, her mom reminds her: “You loved chasing after something.
“You had a swagger about you. But win or lose, there was always a big smile on your face. It was fun to see.”
If this was a movie, there’d be one of those zip-back-through-time montages, and we’d see a young nine-year-old watching the US Women’s National Team win the World Cup in 1999. Farrelly and her best friend Bridget would be lined up outside their homes in Haverton, Pennsylvania holding posters to implore passing motorists to ‘honk for the 99ers’.
They’d look wide-eyed into the cameras and put plain words on their dreams: they were...
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