Whether Sofia Sakalis is playing on home soil or out on international fields, she gives every game her all. Her Melbourne City FC team biography describes her has “a creative attacking midfielder with a knack for scoring goals”.
The 18-year-old from Melbourne has had to take some time to heal after an ACL injury put her out of the game for the last season, but has been working hard to get herself back onto the green.
Despite being such a young player on the pitch, Sakalis has already seen a shift in women’s sport in her time.
“When I was younger I would play with boys from the age of five, so there wasn’t even that exposure to girls teams and playing with a lot of girls…Nowadays girls watch women’s sports. I think it’ll just keep improving and keep growing and that’s really exciting to be a part of it as well at such a young age and I’ve still got time to see it grow,” she told