Mary Fowler
Australian soccer player
Mary Boio Fowler (Tok Pisin: [bojo] BOY-oh; born 14 February 2003) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays for English Women's Super League club Manchester City and the Australia national team. Mainly a forward, she is also able to play as a midfielder.
Early life and education
Mary Boio Fowler was born on 14 February 2003 in Cairns, Queensland, the third of five children. Fowler's father, Kevin, is from Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Nido, is from Kira Kira, a village within greater Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, where the couple met.
As a young child, Fowler attended Holy Cross Primary School in Cairns. Her favourite school subject was maths. Her parents chose not to have a television set at home, and so she and her siblings engaged in other forms of entertainment, such as kicking a football around at Trinity Beach near Cairns after school. As a child, Fowler was interested in drawing, writing poetry, dressing up and acting in little shows with her siblings, and enjoyed being creative.
Fowler began playing football at the age of seven.
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