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Inter V Manchester City: Women’s Champions League – Live

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Manchester City’s right-back can not have been far away from making that world XI – she was the fifth-highest defender in the Ballon d’Or rankings and 24th overall.

Casparij has been speaking to Suzanne Wrack about her life as a footballer in an industry that is “not normal” …

I always want to be me and I want people that I knew 10 years ago to now speak to me and be able to be like: ‘Oh you haven’t changed a single bit, you’re still the same person.’ I have a lot of friends outside of football and it gives you such a sense of normality because football, the industry, is not normal and we are not necessarily normal.

We’re in the spotlight every three days at times. We’re getting judged on our performance, we’re getting judged on how we do our work, so I kind of need that sense of normality to make sure I don’t take things too seriously and really keep both my feet on the ground.

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