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Mary Fowler (soccer)

Mary Boio Fowler (Tok Pisin: [bojo] BOY-oh; born 14 February 2003) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays for English Women's Super League club Manchester City and the Australia national team. Mainly a forward, she is also able to play as a midfielder.

Mary Boio Fowler was born on 14 February 2003 in Cairns, Queensland, the third of five children. Fowler's father, Kevin, is from Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Nido, is from Kira Kira, a village within greater Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, where the couple met.

As a young child, Fowler attended Holy Cross Primary School in Cairns. Her favourite school subject was maths. Her parents chose not to have a television set at home, and so she and her siblings engaged in other forms of entertainment, such as kicking a football around at Trinity Beach near Cairns after school. As a child, Fowler was interested in drawing, writing poetry, dressing up and acting in little shows with her siblings, and enjoyed being creative.

Fowler began playing football at the age of seven. While still at school, she was a member of boys teams for Saints FC as well as Leichhardt FC in the local Cairns league. She was selected to play for the Queensland state under-12s team at 10 years of age. A year later, she moved with her family to the Netherlands where they lived for three years, during which she was signed to BVV Barendrecht and learnt to speak Dutch fluently.

At age 14, Fowler returned to Australia with her family and began attending Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts. Later, she played for Bankstown City in the NSW Women's National Premier League. In 2019, aged 16 years, Fowler signed her first professional contract with Adelaide United and relocated to South Australia to begin her football career.

Fowler made her W-League debut for Adelaide United in the first game of the 2019–20 season. She scored her first goal in that game in a 2–1 loss against Western Sydney Wanderers.

In February 2020, on the day of her 17th birthday, Fowler signed for French Ligue 1 club Montpellier HSC on a three-year contract, arranged by her father, after an undisclosed transfer fee was paid. She moved to Montpelier and made her debut against Olympique Lyonnais in February 2020.

She was named to ESPN's 21 under 21, an international list of footballers representing the next generation of talent, in May 2021.

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