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"Football is also a sacrifice. I realised nothing really comes easy. I didn’t really have much of a social life, or friends you would say."

— Ellie Carpenter

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Source: Lyon defender Ellie Carpenter: ‘I don’t think many people understand how cut-throat it is’ by Emma Kemp. May 17, 2022. Retrieved 14/11/2023.
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