Count how many times she’s in the right place at the right time for the ball to hit her and ask yourself whether luck is even playing a part
Mary Earps’ career has been one of peaks and troughs in rapid succession. From the high of playing against Germany in 2019 in front of almost 80,000 supporters, to the lows of 2020, when she almost quit football. At that point, the money was low, the competition was high and the prospects of leading her country seemed infinitesimally small.
Earps is a big personality, and that could not have developed without those experiences. It’s a lovely warm cliche, using your hardship as fuel and it making you stronger, but it rarely happens like that in reality. Yet Earps can look back on those days and know that they made her. England have the best goalkeeper in the world – that is beyond doubt. Earps’ shot-stopping is magnificent, but it is her communication and control of situations that are most impressive and stand out in her peer group. England played with different defensive shapes and different personnel in this World Cup , but it never seems to fluster their goalkeeper. .the European Championship final
was magnificent, earning her a place in the official Team of the Tournament. But rather than act as recognition, Earps seemed to see it as a challenge. When you fulfil your potential you have two options: keep trying to match that level or try to increase the potential.
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