From doing the laundry at Arsenal to having to use her vacation days to play for England at the 2007 World Cup while coaching at the David Beckham Academy, Casey Stoney has paid her dues.
"I think we all have a responsibility to the game," the 42-year-old former England captain said in an interview."I've got two little girls and a little boy and I've always said when I was playing I wanted to leave the shirt in a better place than when I took it. And now I'm coaching I want to leave the game in a better place and all I've ever wanted is my little girls to have the same opportunity as my little boy.
"One of the real reasons I was really interested in the job was how much I had heard about the positive culture — the humility of the people, the hard work," said Stoney, who coached Canadian No. 1 goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan at San Diego. In 1994, at age 12, she joined Chelsea. She had to pay to play there, three pounds on a training night and five pounds on match day.
"But I'm really pleased I went through that era," she added."Because I think I've got the work ethic I've got now because I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning and train before I did a full day's work or do a full day's work and then go training. So for me, coming into management, it's hard work, it's a hard job. But it's nothing I haven't been doing for so many years.
At Chelsea, defender John Terry paid for the women's tracksuits after the club would only provide"hand-me-downs from one of the academy teams." Stoney is not about to ask her players to do something she wouldn't do herself. At Manchester United, as part of a team-building exercise with her players to face their fears, she had someone bring in"huge snakes, giant-sized cockroaches and tarantulas."
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