There were times when Lily Agg would have been forgiven for assuming an international career with Ireland just wasn’t meant to be.
She remembers seeing a missed call on her phone after a game with London City Lionesses. She checked the voicemail and it was Vera Pauw inviting her along to the next Irish camp. “I rang her back, thanked her, said I’d be honoured, but, unfortunately, I’d just fractured a bone in my knee.”
Twice more problems with the knee forced her to decline call-ups, including for February’s Pinatar Cup in Spain. “It was gutting,” she says, “but Vera said she’d keep an eye on me, not to rush the injury. She was funny, she said I reminded her of herself, a tough cookie, that I’d be back.”
The one time s …
- April 7, 2022
