If you weren’t paying attention to the UEFA Women’s Champions League first round draws, you may have missed that UNC legend Heather O’Reilly is no longer retired from professional football, and noticeably absent from the UNC women’s team sideline.
O’Reilly has decided to lace her boots up for one more run at glory and to scratch an achievement off her to-do list that she didn’t get to do while at Arsenal: play in the Champions League. Enter Shelbourne F.C. Heather O’Reilly signed for the Dublin, Ireland-based club in July for the last half of their season (the Women’s National League, Ireland’s top-tier football league, plays from March through October, out of sync with most European leagues that play from August through May) and their run in the Champions League qualifiers.