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Olympic Games

193 articles indexed from the She Kicks and Her Goal archive

Also filed as 2012 London Olympics, 2012 Olympics, Beijing Olympics 2008, London 2012 Olympic Games, London 2012 Olympics, London Olympics 2012 and 13 other names

England’s Opponents: France (Group F)

Tournament feature She Kicks, issue 28, June 2015 p.20

France are widely accepted to have the technical talent to be crowned world champions, and the same expectation was heaped on them at Euro 2013 before failure to dismiss Denmark at the quarter-final stage…

Rincon Report (Yoreli Rincon interview)

Interview She Kicks, issue 28, June 2015 p.22

Colombia's Yoreli Rincon, now with Torres in Italy, previews her country's second World Cup after Las Cafeteras finished unbeaten in the Copa America Femenina, drawing 0-0 with Brazil in the final to qualify for…

Tank Attack (Melissa Tancredi interview)

Interview She Kicks, issue 28, June 2015 p.23

Canadian forward Melissa Tancredi, 33, prepares for a third World Cup and says it will not hit her until the anthem and the opening game against China in Edmonton, which she expects to be…

Legend Ends England Career (Kelly Smith interview)

Interview She Kicks, issue 27, April 2015 pp.15–17

Kelly Smith closes an England career that began at seventeen against Italy at Roker Park, almost two decades and 117 caps later. She expected to go away quietly and was surprised to be inundated…

Ini Hoping to Score World Cup Call-Up (Ini Umotong)

Interview She Kicks, issue 27, April 2015 p.31

Portsmouth striker Ini Umotong, 20, is making her case for a place in Nigeria's World Cup squad having come off the bench to score on her Super Falcons debut. A centre forward who played…

Foreign Kicks: Magical Miedema (Vivianne Miedema interview)

Interview She Kicks, issue 27, April 2015 pp.44–45

Eighteen-year-old Vivianne Miedema, who led the Netherlands Under-19s to European glory and then scored the play-off goals that took the senior side to their first World Cup, reflects on a year she never expected.…

She Kicks a Beat: Kazza C and the Bluenose Rock (Karen Carney)

Interview She Kicks, issue 27, April 2015 pp.48–49

Karen Carney, newly the first woman inducted into Birmingham City's Hall of Fame and the first to appear on the men's team match programme cover, turns to music. Not a karaoke fan, she nonetheless…

Rachel Not So Retiring (Rachel Brown-Finnis interview)

Interview She Kicks, issue 26, February 2015 pp.10–13

Rachel Brown-Finnis reflects on retiring after some twenty years in the game, describing the reaction as like attending her own funeral and having the eulogy read out. She explains that a group of senior…

She Kicks a Beat with Rachel Yankey

Interview She Kicks, issue 26, February 2015 pp.42–43

England and Arsenal forward Rachel Yankey, awarded an MBE in 2006 and an OBE in 2014, turns to a subject rarely explored in her story: music. In the gym she prefers meaningful words and…

She Kicks a Beat With… Alex Scott

Run-of-page feature She Kicks, issue SK19, February 2014 p.40

Chris Brookes meets Alex Scott for the She Kicks a Beat slot, exploring the Arsenal and England defender's devotion to music. Scott, the changing room DJ, traces her taste in urban and r&b back…

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