The Big Interview: Ruby Mace
The 21-year-old reflects on recovering from her five-month injury setback off the back of a positive season with Leicester City and her first senior England cap...
It’s remarkably easy to forget that Ruby Mace is just 21 years old.
Firstly, because her senior career began almost five years ago, so it naturally feels like the midfielder has been around a while now, but secondly because she speaks with such candidness about her career so far, the good and the bad.
The now Leicester City player is speaking just after returning from an injury which not only put pay to her 2024/25 campaign, but also came off the back of winning her first senior cap for England.
With Mace in good form for club and being rewarded by her country, the knee injury in March came at the worst possible time, but the youngster admits it taught her some valuable life lessons to take forwards with her.
“The recovery was quite hard for me personally because I think I got told an initial timeline which was about six weeks and it turned to be nearly five months,” says Mace. “For me to take that information was quite hard and I just learned to know and accept my body was a slow healer and you don’t always need to be disheartened about times being bad.
“For me, it was work through the pain, get back to the best I could be, and in the end, I’m really glad I didn’t rush anything.”
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