MARIJANA Rajcic describes it as one of the most important goals of her cross-code football career.
But Adelaide’s soccer convert said her maiden AFLW major during the Crows’ thrilling four-point triumph over Fremantle owed much to star teammate Erin Phillips.
Rajcic held her nerve to convert a free kick late in the first term in Darwin on Friday night as Adelaide kept its premiership defence alive.
The former Adelaide United W-League captain said a crash-course in goalkicking with reigning AFLW best and fairest Phillips a fortnight ago proved telling in the pressure moment.
“We were at training and Flip (Phillips) goes to me ‘MJ have you got a set-shot routine?’,” Rajcic, 28, said.
“I was like ‘nah mate’, but she said ‘everyone has got to have a set-shot routine’.
“So she spent about 15 or 20 minutes with me before training and basically just stood on the mark for me to do my set shot.