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15 articles indexed from the She Kicks and Her Goal archive
Interview Her Goal, issue 7, June 2026 pp.48–52
An interview with the former Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid midfielder, who retired last summer at 31 midway through her Real contract. Leupolz explains a decision driven by tiredness after 14 years, two…
Other She Kicks, issue 57, November 2019 pp.8–9
A two-page paparazzi gallery from the Best FIFA Football Awards, held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 23 September 2019. Megan Rapinoe took The Best FIFA Women's Player and Jill Ellis The…
Interview She Kicks, issue 48, July 2018 pp.55–57
Maren Meinert won a World Cup and three European titles as a player and has since taken Germany's youth teams to five more, and she says none of it was planned - coaching only…
Interview She Kicks, issue 46, March 2018 p.64
A two-page She Kicks Back special in which Chris Brookes invites Nadine Kessler, forced to retire at 28 by knee injuries and now UEFA's Head of Women's Football, to revisit her favourite football memories.…
Other She Kicks Special Edition, October 2016 p.52
The final era section of the retrospective, covering 2011 to 2016, opening with the arrival of the WSL and the levelling of the playing field. The year pages log Japan's fairytale World Cup win…
Interview She Kicks, issue 37, September 2016 pp.40–41
Ada Hegerberg was named UEFA's Best Women's Player for 2015-16, the youngest recipient of an award previously won by Nadine Kessler and Celia Sasic, and collected it in Monaco on the same night Cristiano…
News She Kicks, issue 35, May 2016 pp.4–7
May's news opens with Chan Yuen-ting becoming the first woman to lead a professional men's team to a top-flight title, her Eastern side winning the Hong Kong Premier League. Hope Powell joins the PFA…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 28, June 2015 p.3
Jen O'Neill opens the World Cup issue admitting the tournament always seems ages off and then takes her by surprise. If Canada 2015 is only half as good as Germany four years ago, she…
News She Kicks, issue 28, June 2015 pp.4–6
England Under-19s qualify for the Euro finals in bizarre circumstances after UEFA orders the final sixteen seconds of their game with Norway replayed in Belfast, Leah Williamson holding her nerve to convert the retaken…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 26, February 2015 p.3
Jen O'Neill welcomes an issue with a deliberately global focus, featuring both the Asian and African Women's Players of the Year, and argues that in a World Cup year the international game matters more…
