The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu With Veatriki Sarri

Brighton’s Greek attacker took an unconventional route to the WSL, via university study and fourth-tier football, and here she is asked whether the secret is in what she eats. Veatriki Sarri cannot stand tomatoes or bananas and would eat far more chocolate if she were not an athlete. She recommends pastitsio and spinach-feta pie to anyone looking beyond the obvious Greek dishes, and would treat herself to pizza or Nutella pancakes. Pre-match is porridge or Greek yoghurt with granola and honey; half-time is a gel and energy gummies, which she finds genuinely refuel her. She learned to cook because she left home young, though she would rather eat out than cook for herself. For teammates she makes pastitsio, then chocolate crepes.