Caitlin Foord

About

Caitlin Jade Foord (born 11 November 1994) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Women’s Super League club Arsenal and the Australia national team. She became the youngest Australian to play at a World Cup in 2011 at the age of 16.
In 2011, Foord was named World Cup Best Women’s Young Player, Asian Women’s Young Footballer of the Year, and Football Federation Australia’s U20 Women’s Footballer of the Year. In 2016, she was awarded Asian Women’s Footballer of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation.

Raised with her sister Jamie by their mother Simone in Shellharbour, a suburb 100 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Foord attended Illawarra Sports High School. Her mother would frequently drive Foord three-four hours round-trip to Sydney for training and games: “She’d pick me up straight after school and drive me to Sydney Olympic Park and back four times a week for training – and again on the weekend for a game.” Her sister Jamie recommended to their mother to let Caitlin try football after seeing her play on the playground at school with boys. “She was just doing so many sports. We took her down…