Irish football star Stephanie Roche is currently in rehab from a complicated leg break.
While she is waiting on the sidelines to see if she'll be fit enough to play in the Irish team's Euro Qualifier in August, the Dublin woman is keen to highlight the importance of minding your body - especially your feet!
We spoke to the athlete about her career highlights and where her relationship with the FAI stands today - watch her in the video above.
Stephanie's name made headlines in 2017 when she and the national women's football team threatened to go on strike before their friendly against Slovakia in a bid to set higher standards for future talent.
The team raised issues such as ownership of tracksuits, conditions in the away camp, and wifi access but Stephanie insists that there are no hard feelings.
"I think it was almost a breakdown of communication rather than them [the FAI] doing it on purpose. I don't think it was like, 'oh, the girls don't need it'. I think it just had to be said and they were like, 'oh, we didn't realise that this was needed', more so that it being [...] inequality or anything like that - from my point of view anyway."
Roche also found fame in 2014 when she was nominated for a Puskas award for FIFA’s best goal of the year at the Ballon d’Or ceremony.
Stephanie was the only woman on the ten-person list for the prestigious award that year. While her strike- which you can watch below- didn't earn her the Puskas, it did earn her spot as a household name.
Speaking on her awe-inspiring goal, Stephanie says it felt as if the entire country was behind her.
"Going to the Ballon d'Or was something that was unbelievable for me, my family, for everybody, I suppose, in Ireland. Everybody got behind us so since then, obviously, my life has changed a little bit because I can't walk down the street without someone going, 'that's your one that scored that goal' - that's what I always get," she laughed.
She continued: "It definitely helped me put myself in the spotlight but also put women's football in the spotlight and that was something that I tried to do at the time. I tried to really push women's football and push the national league here in Ireland - because that's where the goal was scored - so I think it definitely did give me that platform."
Stephanie Roche spoke to us at the launch of a new foot health campaign for Pamex, the Mayo-based distributor of foot health products, Mycosan and Dermatonics Once.
