Liverpool striker has fully recovered from an ankle injury which ruled her out for almost the entire season
Heather Payne and Amber Barrett during the Republic of Ireland's open training session at the UCD Bowl in Dublin. Photograph: Ben Brady/InphoLeanne Kiernan has only played 32 minutes of competitive football since last September but, she confirmed, “I still know where the goal is”.
“Because then I knew I had an end goal to my rehab. I had a whiteboard in my room with the World Cup dates written on it, so I was always working towards that. I cried my eyes out when Amber scored. Happy tears.” “I read an interview recently where it said how this [she gestures a small enough distance between her fingers] is how good it is to go to a World Cup, but this [she spreads her arms wide] is all the fu*king work you do to get there.”
It helped that she had signed a contract extension shortly before her injury, the club then invested in her recovery, not all players, especially of the female variety, enjoying those levels of care. “You know, I don’t even think about that right now. I just know that in every training session I will give 110 per cent. If that’s enough, that’s enough. I can only do my best and hope everything else falls into place. I feel really good. Probably fresher than I’ve ever felt because I’ve had so much time off.”
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