Emma Ciantar Piccinino was part of the Sunderland Foundation of Light team that cruised to the semi-finals of the National Football Youth League after their 6-1 win over Everton.
Sunderland FoL will now await their opponents in the final four namely Sunderland FoL’s B Team, Huddersfield and Alexandra Gatt’s Barking Abbey.
In this quarter-final tie, the Maltese youth was deployed from the start and went on to play the full 90 minutes.