Women’s Soccer Team. Mission Unstoppable. She began to play for Millwall Lionesses and stayed there for nine years, during which time she made her debut for the England women’s team, new england kit at the age of sixteen. Powell had been a footballing prodigy, a creative free-scoring midfielder, who caused a furore at the age of twelve when she had to be dropped from her school football team, england shirts because of FA regulations. There was a fair media fuss but Powell believes the games teacher was more annoyed about of the loss of a star player rather than making a principled stand against gender-bias in football.