Rachel Daly's PE teacher "always knew she would be a star"
The Lionesses are back in World Cup action today
England take on Denmark in the women's world cup this morning.
It's another chance for Harrogate's Rachel Daly to impress.
Michael Sweetman was her PE teacher at the Rossett school in Harrogate and says he always knew she was going to be a star: "Rach was basically the best player we've ever seen at school, she was amazing, balance, touch her movement was brilliant, she just played like one of the boys and at that time we'd never had a girl player to that standard."
"Now you've got kids in Harrogate wearing Aston Villa tops with her name on their back and it is just brilliant to see and obviously seeing a kid from your school playing for England and is one of the best strikers in the world is just unbelievable really."
"She always wanted to be the best, we won the County Cup virtually every year when she was at school and that culminated in reaching the national cup final when she was in Year 8 and for a school like Rossett to get to the national cup final, beating teams from all over the North of England it was just unheard of."
"She changed the curriculum of PE because she wanted to play with the boys and PE in those days was more or less single sex, but when Rach started playing with the boys, other girls wanted to start playing as well so we had to bring football into the curriculum so Rach really impacted on us."