Katie Crosses the Ocean (Katie Chapman)

Cath Etoe interviews Katie Chapman as the England midfielder leaves for Emma Hayes’s Chicago Red Stars on a two-year contract, days after scoring the winner against Spain at Millwall, the club where she made her first-team debut at 14. Chapman, 27 and newly married, describes being nervous but excited about moving the whole family: husband Mark, who holds a level two coaching badge, will coach and look after sons Harvey, seven, and Riley, 20 months, and the club has found them an apartment with a pool and tennis courts. She believes American scouts watching Euro 2009 made up their minds, names scoring more goals as her priority, hopes to settle in midfield rather than centre-half, and looks forward to playing with Karen Carney again. She will be sad to leave Arsenal, where she would return to finish her career.