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Meet the former Man City player who is trying to build the biggest female football brand in the world
NatWest helped Grace Vella secure £150k of funding after she started Miss Kick from a pop-up stall aged 21
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Grace Vella had faced setbacks before.
All she ever wanted to do was play football and aged 17 signed for Man City. She played with the likes of Toni Duggan and Nikita Parris, who are all now in the Lioness team.
But a year later her dreams were dashed when she was released. A life away from football beckoned and she decided to concentrate on a psychology degree at the University of Manchester.
Swansea midfielder Yan Dhanda has become the latest footballer to be subjected to racist abuse online. The 22-year-old was sent the abuse on social media after Swansea's 3-1 FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Manchester City at the Liberty Stadium on Wednesday evening. Swansea strongly condemned the abuse in a subsequent statement, urging social media companies to "go above and beyond" to crackdown on such vile behaviour and confirming that they had.