The three-cap international faces a minimum six-week recovery time after dislocating her right ankle while competing for the ball with another player while in camp with the Football Ferns in Auckland last week.
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Stratford said the ill-timed injury, which left her ankle “disfigured”, was not as bad as it looked, suffering some ligament damage but escaping without any fractures.
“It was just a freak accident really,” she said.
