McCall Zerboni's long march to the World Cup: 'In the offseason I was barely surviving'

The defensive midfielder was 30 before she made her debut for the US. She tells Gemma Clarke about her journey to the top of the game

When she was 12 years old, McCall Zerboni saw her first live soccer match.

With the letters USA hand-drawn on her shirt and her blonde hair braided in three sections and sprayed red, white and blue, she joined her mom, twin sister and more than 90,000 eager spectators at the Rose Bowl for the 1999 World Cup final.

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