Interview
The She Kicks Locker Room: The Before & After with Katie Zelem
She Kicks, issue 25, January 2015 p.42
Liverpool and England Under-20 midfielder Katie Zelem, newly signed to a fresh contract with the WSL champions, takes the magazine through her matchday. Food depends on kick-off time, with beans and scrambled eggs on toast the choice for early starts. She used to brush her teeth right before kick-off but abandoned the ritual after it went badly at the Under-20 World Cup, though she still wears the same underwear for every game, as her mother well knows. Before matches she fixes on three specific points relevant to the game plan. Zelem places herself with Kate Longhurst and Katrin Omarsdottir among the loud contingent everyone is edging away from, and notes that Fara Williams, Gemma Bonner and Becky Easton step up on matchdays. Skipping the ice bath incurs a fine.