'There wasn't even a few hundred there, that was the first game I started' - Aine O'Gorman

Nearly 20 years on, she is sitting in a Dublin hotel and talking to a large media group about preparing for the World Cup finals and the thousands that might travel south to Australia and New Zealand for it next summer.

PASSING ON KNOWLEDGE: Áine O'Gorman and her 11-week-old son James. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Aine O'Gorman can't even remember the date anymore, a mid-2000s clash with Germany in Inchicore.

"There wasn't even a few hundred there, that was the first game I started," she recalled.