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Arsenal’s Lydia Williams: ‘I’d love to inspire the next generation of Indigenous athletes’

From a sporting point of view, her hero is the Sydney Olympics 400m gold medallist Cathy Freeman who became the second Indigenous Olympic champion, after Nova Peris. “I still get goosebumps whenever I watch that video,” says Williams. “She had the whole nation and a whole culture on her shoulders. And she was just so cool, calm and collected throughout the whole thing. And the whole country remembers it.

“I’d love to do that myself and inspire the next generation of athletes, not just footballers, but athletes and especially Indigenous athletes. There’s such an untapped talent pool there and just love to go out into different communities and just inspire that generation to dream big and make it for themselves.”