The She Kicks Locker Room: Game Ready with Kyah Simon (PSV)

Freshly signed by PSV and looking ahead to Champions League football with them, the Australia forward walks through what she does on a matchday. It begins the night before with pasta and continues with avocado and Vegemite on toast, eggs and – always – coffee. She likes a walk, a stretch and a roll in the morning, music on the way to the ground and whatever the team playlist is once she is in the changing room. She spends a little time visualising her aims for the game but is careful not to play it before she plays it, and says she stopped getting nervous years ago because good preparation removes most of it. Afterwards come ice baths, a protein shake, recovery tights and a lot of fluid, then Netflix and a call home, because she can never sleep after a game.