Lucy Bronze, winner of 'The Best', worked in a bar to pay for her studies

Last December, Lucy Bronze won the FIFA's Best Player of the World award, a prestigious accolade that made her the first-ever defender to win it for both men and women.

The former Olympique Lyon player, now a player with Manchester City, closed a masterful 2020 with this award, surpassing Denmark's Pernille Harder and France's Wendie Renard in the votes. 

But what very few know is the complicated path that the best player had to travel until she reached such admirable and great heights. 

As Bronze herself revealed in an interview with the FIFA, she had to work in a bar in order to pay for her studies when she was an Everton player, as she was born into a less than well-off family.

Now Lucy Bronze is one of the best players on the planet, an icon of English football, winner of the PFA Player of the Year award twice and Footballer of the Year in 2018 by the 'BBC'.