Full-back is gearing up to face
Arsenal at the
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a game far removed from her reality as a child
When Tottenham’s full-back Siri Worm was a child she could not have envisaged professionalism or playing at a ground as grand as the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium because it was so far removed from her reality. “When I was starting playing
Football we didn’t even have women’s teams in Holland,” the 28-year-old says. “I didn’t even know that there was a national team in women’s football. I couldn’t dream as my teammates in the boys’ team could.”
It was not until her mid-teens that she became aware professionalism was a serious option and “my dream started”.