State of the art facilities, a coffee printer and supportive messages in Terrigal aim to galvanise Lionesses
The huge sack of Yorkshire tea stands in contrast to the coffee printer, which takes photos of the drinker and prints it on the top with edible ink, but both are equally important in England’s Terrigal training base. It is all part of the goal of building a home away from home in Australia for the Lionesses’ World Cup journey, a process that has been years in the making.
“We’re here in Australia, but what you want to create is that home away from home. When you walk in here it feels immediately like England, like Lionesses, like us,” says the team’s general manager Anja Van Ginhoven, who travelled to Australia for the first of five site visits in December 2021 with women’s technical director Kay Cossington.
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