Sunderland’s Grace McCatty: ‘Zambia changed my life – the joy football brought to children in poverty’
28-Jan-2023 12:00:18 | The Guardian
Defender eyes a Women’s FA Cup upset against Manchester United and a former teammate but has found another mission
Grace McCatty had turned tearful and her Kenyan friends were torn between concern and puzzlement. “I watched the Euro 2022 final in Nairobi and, when England won, I was quite emotional,” says the Sunderland centre-half. “The colleagues I was with were saying: ‘What’s wrong?’ But I knew just how hard everyone had worked to get there and what a huge moment it was for women’s football in this country.”
McCatty was delighted to see Mary Earps excelling in goal throughout a tournament that culminated in the Lionesses’ watershed Wembley win against Germany last July. The pair previously played together at Bristol City and McCatty is “looking forward” to a “catch up” when Earps and her WSL-leading Manchester United teammates visit the Championship club in Sunday’s Women’s FA Cup fourth-round tie.
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