Sally Bernasconi

This flamboyant Italian engine commands the pitch with ferocious stamina and a physical dominance that belies her bizarre, career-defining history of forgetting how to run after a freak treadmill concussion. She channelled that recovery into an obsessive, lightning-fast intensity, transforming into a box-to-box terror who dominates the air but remains comically inept at actually directing headers on target. Her elegant close control often dazzles, even if her reckless aggression suggests she is playing a sport entirely of her own invention.