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Kristy Moore has been kicking a soccer ball around the world for a living since before the 21st century began.

She had always wanted to play Aussie Rules Football but it was off limits to girls. She was offered netball, which was not her style. So it was soccer as a five-year-old and a bunch of years with the boys as she pursued what rapidly became a passion.

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Maybe that is why, at 37, she has arrived in Ottawa and continues to show those flashes of speed, determination and shooting power that have travelled with her wherever she has gone, earning her England international caps on the way.

Life as a soccer nomad began in 1999 when she left her Adelaide home and headed for England where, among other things, she scored the goal that won Fulham the FA Women’s Cup Final in front of 10,000 fans.

Then it was on to Norway, where she spent the best part of a decade shooting it up in The Toppserien, that country’s top league. She won a hatful of league and cup titles, played in the Champions League, scored more goals in her career there than all but four Norwegians and became a nurse in her spare time.