Played with boys

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She began playing football at age 7 with DJK Don Bosco Bamberg, initially in mixed teams with boys.

Before football became her world, she tried rhythmic gymnastics — then started playing football with boys at age six.

She played for a boys' team before moving to Ajax.

She was one of only three girls in her mixed childhood team and felt she had to work even harder to earn her place, an experience that helped build her confidence.

She started playing football at the age of eight with boys in her hometown club.

As a kid, she played football with boys and also played floorball.

She played football with boys from the youngest age groups up to and including U15.

A childhood feature highlighted that she was already playing primarily with boys at the age of nine and finished as the top scorer of a major youth tournament in Brasília with 14 goals.

She grew up playing on boys' teams due to a lack of local girls' teams, switching to a girls' team 40 minutes away at age 14.

She was the only girl in the German league of youth football she played in.

First 10 years of her career, she played on boys’ teams

Katja started playing football when she was five. For years she played football among the boys at Sporting Martinus.

She grew up in Figtree in Wollongong and started playing in boys' teams there.

She trained with boys until U17 level.

As a child, Bruninha faced prejudice and judgment for being a girl playing football with boys, but this only motivated her to keep going and break barriers that tried to stop her from competing.