Bronze has talent to be golden girl

LUCY Bronze will be out to carve her name into Lionesses history against Spain in Sydney today.

- Richard Edwards

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Not long ago she was doing likewise for her hometown of Alnwick as the first girl to break into a sport then dominated by boys.

Ray Smith was the coach who handed her an opportunity that she grabbed with both hands.

"No-one had done it before no girl had ever played for the football club at any level," he says.