The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu with Steffi Hardy and Rio Hardy (Apollon Limassol)

The magazine gets two players for the price of one as the Workington-born twins Steffi and Rio Hardy, of the Cypriot champions Apollon, talk food. Steffi cannot abide seafood; Rio cannot watch anybody eat a tomato. Steffi’s favourite is her grandmother’s homemade tatie hash, saved for trips home; Rio’s, for now, is gyros in Cyprus. Before a game Steffi takes pasta or chicken, or a bagel and banana for a morning kick-off; Rio has porridge with fruit at home and a banana or cereal bar in the changing room, because she hates playing hungry. Afterwards, Cypriot away trips being short, it is a sandwich on the coach – a contrast with Iceland, where they were given soup to warm up, and America, where the post-match meal was a full cookout.