Andrea Romero
Retired player
Pre-match ritual: avoids stepping on lines, touches the crossbar, the penalty spot, and both posts.
Superstitions
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Tatumn Milazzo
Utah Royals FC
She used to have small rituals in college, like wearing the same sports bra after a good game, but now she’s more relaxed, believing that game outcomes aren’t decided by routine habits.
Rafaela Mendonça
Paris FC
Her pre-match routine includes one very distinctive tradition. After the team photo, she heads towards her goal, jumps, touches the crossbar and finishes with a Spider-Man pose.
Alejandra Bernabé
Liverpool FC
She has folded her shirt before matches since she was a child, even though she does not know why she started doing it. Her pre-match routine also includes keeping her shirt folded, with her shin pads above her boots in the dressing room. She looks up at the sky when she goes onto the pitch or enters the dressing room.
Valeria Pirone
Ternana
Valeria has her own pre-match superstition, but she deliberately keeps the ritual a secret.
Jacqueline Meißner
Borussia Dortmund
Her pre-game ritual is to always have a coffee before home matches, and she also insists on leaving the dressing room last.
Priscila Siben
CA Banfield
She has a very specific pre-match superstition: from the penalty arc towards her goal, she steps on each field marking first with her right foot and then her left.
Carlotta Wamser
Manchester City
Her pre-match ritual is putting her socks on backwards.
Briana Johnson
Necaxa
She follows a pregame ritual of putting on her right cleat before the left.
Taylor Huff
Bay FC
She sticks to a few personal rituals: she always puts her left sock and shoe on first and listens to Alpha Waves before matches.
Charli Grant
Malmö FF
Her superstition is to eat pasta around 24 hours before a game.
Loreen Bender
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
She needs to polish her nails as part of her supersition.
Ona Batlle
Arsenal WFC
Her pre-match ritual is to step onto the pitch with her right foot first.
Lea Schüller
Manchester United WFC
Before each match, she steps onto the pitch with her left foot first without touching the line.
Natasha Kowalski
SGS Essen
Before games, she always steps onto the pitch with her right foot first.
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