Tina Realm

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Tina Realm
Sport
Football
Team
Ariddia
Position
Defence
Number
9

A football player who competed in the World Cup as part of the team from the People’s Democratic Social Republic of Ariddia, the World Cup founder.

Perhaps never fully appreciated to her true worth by home supporters, Realm at least had the distinction of being acclaimed abroad. To her great surprise, she was voted one of the four best defenders in the world after World Cup 4.

Realm was a player of the early years, joining Ariddia's national team for World Cup 2, when it first opened up to female players. At the time, Ariddia was not known for the quality of its defensive playing, and Realm established herself as the cohesive force organising the team's defence.

Realm was a woman with fairly long, chocolate-brown hair, deep brown eyes, and slightly sun-tanned skin. She is now long since deceased. In a nation whose football heroes have traditionally been goalkeepers and attackers, it is significant that she was able to leave her mark at all.