Denise O'Sullivan will win her 130th Republic of Ireland cap in Gdansk this evening to leave her just four games off record appearance holder Emma Byrne.
A remarkable career is still going strong with so much more to tick off the list of ambitions.
Chief among the Corkwoman's targets is, of course, another appearance at a World Cup. Ireland can help their chances with a positive result against a strong Polish outfit and O'Sullivan will, as always, be key to their chances.
She missed the defeat to the Netherlands in Utrecht last month after injuring her knee in the previous game against France. Some rehab in Liverpool quickly got her back up to speed, and now the 32-year-old is straining at the leash to help her country get a big result.
"They're a really good team," O'Sullivan told RTÉ Sport's Tony O'Donoghue.
"I think the message with the group and the staff all week has been, we can't be complacent going into this game. We've seen what they did against Netherlands. They have world class players.
"People know the name Ewa Pajor (the prolific Barcelona striker), but I think outside of her, there's a lot of world class players in that team as well. We've been doing our homework on them.
"They're a really, really good team and very passionate. I think they're a team that's together, they're very aggressive in their pressing and good in transition. So we're going to have to be ready just as much as we had to be ready against France and the Netherlands in that last camp.
"We're really excited. We're confident and it should be a good game."
"I have my house there and I can't wait to go back and visit."
O'Sullivan joined Liverpool in January, bringing to an end her American adventure with North Carolina Courage. She's been a big hit on Merseyside, helping the Reds to move away from danger at the foot of the WSL table while marching into the FA Cup semi-finals.
Now just a short flight away from her beloved Cork, O'Sullivan is in good spirits, though she is not ruling out a move back across the Atlantic once she hangs up her boots. O'Sullivan owns a house in the States and is engaged to an American, James Hamblin.
"I have my house there and I can't wait to go back and visit," she said.
"I have a lot of people that I love there. And my partner's there as well, so it all depends. I won't say anything now because my family might get a bit mad! But I think potentially America will be will be the move for me at the end of my career.
"It was kind of a spur of the moment (moving to Liverpool). I I felt the urge to have a new challenge. I'd been with the Courage for 10 years so I just got this urge that I needed a new challenge in my game. The WSL over the years, I've been speaking about it, that I did want to go play there.
"So, yeah, it just came about. I spoke to the Courage, spoke to Liverpool, not me, but my representative and they collaborated on it and I got the contract."
O'Sullivan cleared up the knee issue that ruled her out of the Dutch contest. She went down midway through the first half, removing heavy strapping around the knee and ultimately finishing the match.
The subsequent news that she'd miss the trip to Utrecht led to questions about why she'd taken off the strapping, but the midfielder clarified: "It was me, to be fair. It was just a bit too tight in my calf. So I said, I'll get to half-time and reassess it then and put the strapping back on.
"I wasn't worried, to be honest, because I'm after doing that MCL a few times and I know my body and I know when I can push through it and when I can't. It was a very important game. It was 15 minutes into the game. I was really excited for the camp, but I also wasn't being stupid. I kind of knew in my head that I would be fine."
It's been a transitional 18 months for the Girls in Green. Niamh Fahey, Diane Caldwell, Louise Quinn and Julie-Ann Russell have all retired, heightening the importance of O'Sullivan and comrade Katie McCabe in the dressing room. A new dynamic has taken shape on the road to the World Cup in Brazil.
"We've lost a lot of world-class leaders," added O'Sullivan. "They were great servants to Ireland. They've done so much for the team. They helped myself, Katie, Courtney, become leaders ourselves.
"So we miss them greatly. But when they left, it was a time for others to step up and we're trying to do that as best as we can. There's other players on the team, Caitlin Hayes, Anna Patten, Megan Connolly. They're all fantastic leaders as well.
"We're not short of leaders now, but it's definitely in a transition phase for the team, for sure."
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