Sandy • It took about two years for the woman now known as “The Destroyer” to not shake in her boots around the midfielder she’d one day call one of her closest friends.
It was 2010, and Desiree Scott was relishing her first days as a senior member of the Canadian women’s soccer team. When you’re a newbie, you get the rookie treatment, so when Diana Matheson told Scott to clean up after a training session, Scott was intimidated, and she remained that way for a while.
Actually, that’s an apt description for both of the Canadian international soccer household names — Matheson is 5-foot tall while Scott stands at 5-foot-3 — who are now two parts of the Utah Royals FC midfield.