In a room of exceptional folks, Mackenzie Arnold will stand out from the gang at FIFA‘s The Best awards.
The Australia and West Ham goalkeeper is one in every of three names in competition to be carry the Women’s Best Goalkeeper trophy on Monday night. But she’ll have stiff competitors in Spanish World Cup-winner Catalina Coll and naturally England runner-up Mary Earps, who has already been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Each of these three stoppers have deserved stakes on the gong, however Arnold is exclusive in comparison with each different candidate hoping to clinch silverware in London. That’s after the Queensland native found she wanted to start out sporting listening to aids nearly 4 years in the past, regardless of already being midway by her skilled profession.
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It had at all times been a working gag amongst team-mates that Arnold had poor listening to, and he or she has a brother, Sam, who has utilised aids because the age of three. However, it wasn’t till Covid-19 struck and other people began sporting face masks that she realised simply how a lot she was counting on lip-reading to know what they had been saying.
“I’ve played my whole life without them in. I still consider not wearing them as normal,” she instructed Optus Sport final 12 months. “It’s a whole different world when I put my hearing aids in, it’s like what have I been missing out on for 25 years?
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“But I think if I wore them on the field it would take my mind away [from the game] because I’d be fiddling with them too much.”
Matildas star Arnold, 29, delay seeing a specialist concerning her listening to struggles however has since embraced her standing as a trailblazer amongst hard-hearing athletes. She nonetheless will get by simply high-quality with out utilizing her aids on-field, serving to Australia attain the final 4 of a World Cup for the primary time after saving three penalties within the quarter-finals.
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Any of the three shortlisted for Women’s Best Goalkeeper can be a deserved victor in London. However, there’s one identify within the working who has needed to take a really completely different path to success.