AUCKLAND : There is no place like home for Olivia Chance, the most travelled player in women's football, who will play in her own backyard when co-hosts New Zealand kick off their World Cup campaign this week.Chance logged 145,406km across 12 trips between August 2022 and the end of March to meet club and
AUCKLAND : There is no place like home for Olivia Chance, the most travelled player in women's football, who will play in her own backyard when co-hosts New Zealand kick off their World Cup campaign this week.
"My mum, she loves travelling," said Chance."So she could be slightly disappointed - she can't get a holiday out of it." "There were definitely ups and downs, people, other professionals thinking, 'Oh, she might not make it,'" she told Reuters.
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