The Arsenal and England footballer has been training to be an accountant and has used her injury lay-off to make her first business investment, hoping it puts her on solid ground for a post-football career.
England captain Leah Williamson has said it's important sportswomen have another qualification in their locker"in case anything goes wrong"., is training to be an accountant, having decided to pursue it as a potential back-up career."I started it as a bit of an insurance policy for me to take the pressure off football - so if it didn't work out, I have something else."
The 26-year-old is a star player for her country and club side Arsenal, but is enduring a months-long break from the game afterThe rupture to her anterior cruciate ligament and subsequent surgery ruled her out of this summer's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which runs from 20 July to 20 August.
Williamson revealed she'd had a"physical or mental question mark" hanging over her every day since last October, having played huge amounts of football for both England and Arsenal.
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