Morgane Martins
FC Fleury 91
She has long combined elite football with teaching: while at Issy she was also working as a physical education (EPS) teacher.
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Aideen Keane
Melbourne City FC
She runs football camps for children.
Thindra Mattsson
AIK Stockholm
Away from football, she took the role of salesperson in AutomAI UF, a student company she helped run at Celsiusskolan.
Phallon Tullis-Joyce
Manchester United WFC
She helps to train young goalkeepers.
Fridolina Rolfö
Manchester United WFC
Before she started making a living from football, she worked in a bank.
Marta Gestera
Alhama CF
She's a nutrition specialist.
Nya Harrison
San Diego Wave FC
She interned with Voice in Sport, a platform aimed at empowering women in sports.
Simone Magill
Birmingham City FC
She co-created the Born & Bred Podcast with Northern Ireland international Caragh Hamilton, interviewing notable people from Northern Ireland including Jonathan Rea, Lady Mary Peters and Niall McGinn.
Nadia Nadim
HB Køge
While building her football career, she also studied medicine for years. She described that period as “sleep, study, train, repeat” and said she worked in hospital operating theatres assisting surgeons.
Sydney Leroux
Angel City FC
She co-hosts the BFFR podcast together with Angel City teammate Ali Riley.
Clara Choisy
FC Bayern Munich
Alongside football, she is training to become an aircraft mechanic at Airbus, balancing her football career with a technical apprenticeship.
Justine Vanhaevermaet
Crystal Palace FC
She worked in physiotherapy for a couple of years in Belgium while managing her career before turning fully professional.
Carla Polito
RC Lens
She also teaches sociology classes to first-year university students.
Michelle Alozie
Chicago Stars FC
She works as a cancer research technician. Her lab studies chemotherapy resistance in pediatric cancers to improve treatment options.
Ali Riley
Retired player
She co-hosts a pregame show for Just Women’s Sports with fellow U.S. star Kelley O’Hara.
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