When Aurora Galli penned a two-year deal with Everton back in the summer of 2021, she wrote her own chapter of football history.
Her arrival on Merseyside was trailblazing; the Tromello-native becoming the first Italian to play in the Women's Super League and, by extension, the first of her countrywomen to play football professionally.
"It was a jump in the dark," she tells the ECHO, reflecting on her decision to leave Turin, where she had been plying her trade for Serie A titans Juventus.