Six years race, Christy Grimshaw used to be working as a waitress at a hotel in Stonehaven, dishing up meals and drinks.
Now, the 24-one year-ragged Scot has been served up her possess Italian job at AC Milan.
Grimshaw is the most fresh player signed up by Milan Females for their third marketing campaign following a marketing campaign with Metz in France.
And now the Kirkcaldy-born midfielder, who signed a one-one year deal closing week, is ready to ranking shut the following step in what she describes as her “soccer fairytale” .
“Befriend when [I worked as a waitress] I played for Aberdeen Girls folk and you could survey some distance, nonetheless I’d never have guessed I’d be here,” she knowledgeable BBC Scotland.
“I should always more or much less catch up a minute bit, it is esteem a soccer fairy story.”
The midfielder admits her footballing course has been out of the norm.
After breaking into the Aberdeen Girls folk first group at the age of 16, she then spent five years at Barry College in Miami after being spotted by a scholarship scout.
A spell in Metz rapidly followed, nonetheless despite the long and winding facet street to the set she is now, Grimshaw stays humble.
Uncapped by her nation, she is hoping that a a success marketing campaign with the Rossonere can propel her into Shelley Kerr’s tips.
“I really have worked laborious yearly that I really have played soccer, after which this came about,” she mentioned.
“It is grand, if I should always play for my nation one day and catch my title available and play the game I cherish, with a truly authorized programme which is getting constructed here, it is the supreme different I would possibly perchance perchance well ranking shut.
“I should always support them enact that and optimistically catch Champions League soccer, and gain the Championship. Let’s hope.”
