During a football match at her primary school’s after-school club, a six-year-old Laura Setchfield decided she wanted to go in goal. “I don’t really know why, I just thought it looked fun to throw myself around,” she says. After a match of diving for the ball and cheers from her teammates when she saved it, Laura was hooked. “The instant I started playing I was like, yeah, this is definitely for me. I really, really enjoyed it and basically never looked back.”
Laura, now 17, is a goalkeeper in the women’s first team at West Bridgford Colts, the same club England’s keeper, Mary Earps, played for early in her footballing career. “It’s such a privilege to play for a team with that legacy,” Laura says. “To have had the world’s best goalkeeper having played for your club is quite an achievement.”
