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Lucy Bronze can get a pair of football boots whenever she wants, now she is one of the best players in the world. But when the England right-back, who has just signed for Barcelona, was heading to her first international tournament in 2013, things were different.
‘Me and Jordan [Nobbs] were the two babies of the team, we didn’t really speak up,’ Bronze recalls. ‘We got sent some Nike boots, hardly any of the players were sponsored. But we got sent these boots, all we did was give our size, we didn’t get to pick anything else, no names on them. And they came up a little bit too small on us.
‘Me and Jordan [Nobbs] didn’t dare ask for a different pair so we wore boots the whole time that were too small for us. We’d get in trouble if we even thought about doing that now.
Lucy Bronze revealed prior to her 88th cap that she wore boots too small for her in 2013
It was the right-back's first taste of an international tournament and did not feel she could complain at the time
‘It makes me laugh because nowadays we have the guy from Nike come in and he measures your feet and makes sure they fit like a glove. That first Euros it was like “you get
