In Life at the Top, featured first in our official matchday programme, we find out more about our first-team stars and their careers to date. Next, we speak to England international Beth Mead.
When did you first want to become a footballer and why?
I would say that when I first started at Middlesbrough’s Centre of Excellence I started to take things a lot more seriously. I started playing when I was six and I fell in love with the game then, and I went to Boro when I was 12. I think things changed for me when I saw how they went about developing female players.