ELLE Australia

GOING FOR GOLD

SAM KERR HAS HAD QUITE A YEAR. As captain of women’s football team Perth Glory, she made the W-League grand final. As a forward for the Chicago Red Stars, she was the leading scorer in the National Women’s Soccer League in the United States for the second year running, taking out the Golden Boot award. And she was the first Australian to be nominated for the FIFA Ballon d’Or, the international player of the year award.

Recently, she became the face of Nike Australia (a deal which reportedly has her on course to become the first Australian female footballer to earn $1 million a year) and has been named the permanent captain of Australia’s national women’s football team, the Matildas, which she’ll lead to the Women’s World Cup this month in France. “I can’t wait,”

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