In the darkness, the profile of an airborne Sam Kerr sails above the waters of Sydney Harbour, backlit by triangles of yellow and green to celebrate Australia’s successful World Cup 2023 bid ...

Sam Kerr was a spellbound seven-year-old when she watched Indigenous Australian Cathy Freeman inspire a nation with an electrifying run for the 400m gold at the Sydney Olympics.

A 12-year-old Sam Kerr was ambivalent about playing football. Now she is one of the greats and bearing the weight of a home World Cup on her shoulders.

The world knows Sam Kerr as legendary because of what she does on the pitch. She started playing for the Australian women’s national team at 15, has captained them since 2019, and is their all ...

She and Sam’s grandmother, Coral, had flown to Chicago, where Kerr was racing towards the NWSL Golden Boot, and entered her apartment to see a blue Chelsea shirt.

Sam Kerr is a hero for a generation of kids. The poster on the wall, the shirt on the back of thousands of future stars of the world game here and overseas.

Sam Kerr had never even thought of playing football until she was forced to give up Aussie Rules aged 12. Just three years later she was in the national team making her debut. Erin Smith looks ...

Kerr, the all-time leading scorer in both the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in the USA and the Australian W-League, talks us through her life in five pictures. I hated every second of football ...