Benedetta Orsi

Football was actually Orsi’s “Plan B.” Her first sporting love was tennis, which she played until she was 12.

Her family was not a football family at all — they were more interested in motorcycles

She remembers spending entire afternoons playing football at the local park and joining games during PE lessons at school.

Orsi was originally a centre-forward, not a defender.

Away from football, she attended a language-focused high school.

One of her favorite Sassuolo memories is a Supercoppa semi-final against Juventus that went to penalties.