SKY SPORT
Defender Rebekah Stott made her return to the Football Ferns after cancer treatment against Iceland in February 2022.
It’s typically goalkeepers who are the crazy ones in football teams.
They mainly use their hands, rather than their feet, after all, so it makes sense they stand out from the pack in other respects.
But in New Zealand’s Football Ferns, currently preparing for a FIFA Women’s World Cup on home soil this month, it’s a 30-year-old defender who, by her own admission, is “the weirdo”.
Rebekah Stott has been a fixture in the national women’s team for more than a decade, while playing professionally in top leagues in Australia, Germany, the United States, Norway and England, and along the way she has earned a reputation as a bit of a joker.
“I always wanted to be a goalkeeper,” she says, “but then I actually tried it once and I hated it, so I don’t think that …