‘It’s interesting,” says Catarina Macario, who returned to action at the start of March, making her Chelsea debut after 20 months out of the game with an anterior cruciate knee ligament injury. “Before the injury I’d be really nervous before big games: ‘I don’t want to mess up, I just want to be able to, like, perform well for my team.’
“Sometimes I almost got too much in my own head to the point that I wouldn’t be able to perform, really. But I feel like now, since the injury, I’m just grateful to be on the pitch again and just to have legs.”
