- Caitlin Foord and Katie McCabe soak up the summer sun
- Arsenal players have been officially dating since May
- He had been romantically linked for about a year prior.
Matildas forward Caitlin Foord and her girlfriend, Irish soccer star Katie McCabe, were seen frolicking on a Sydney beach on Tuesday after their World Cup love triangle shocked soccer fans last year. past.
The couple, who publicly announced their relationship in May, went for an early morning swim on the last day of the year at a beach in Sydney’s south.
Photographers captured the pair, who have been teammates at Arsenal since 2020, smiling and soaking up the summer sun.
Dressed in skimpy bikinis, the sporty power couple showed off their athletic physiques during the intimate beach day.
Ireland captain McCabe is enjoying her time in Australia with her Australian partner and regularly posts pictures on social media of the pair enjoying the outdoors.
The pair traveled to the Hunter Valley in New South Wales last week to attend the wedding of Matildas star Emily Van Egmond and her partner Kat Thompson.
Matildas star Caitlin Foord (right) and her Arsenal teammate Kate McCabe (left) were photographed on a Sydney beach on New Year’s Eve.
The sporting pair became an official item in early 2024 and have been teammates at Arsenal since 2020.
The couple were at the center of a love triangle at the 2023 FIFA World Cup Australia.
Rumors about the Arsenal teammates’ relationship had circulated since a fiery love triangle emerged at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023.
The romance is rumored to have started after McCabe broke up his long-term relationship with international teammate Ruesha Littlejohn just before the World Cup.
That led to reports that McCabe and Foord were a couple, but they remained tight-lipped as pictures or videos of them together occasionally surfaced.
Littlejohn made her feelings very clear, and her Irish teammates had to physically restrain her after she aggressively approached Foord at the end of their World Cup clash.
As the players high-fived each other, Littlejohn ignored Foord completely.
Foord had also recently become single after splitting from Swiss midfielder and Arsenal teammate Lia Walti, adding weight to the rumours.
Littlejohn and McCabe began seeing each other around 2016, with their first date taking place in St Albans. They made their relationship public three years later.
“It all started with football. “She’s a few years older than me,” McCabe said.
“I first met her through football and we became good friends. “We started spending a lot more time together off the field and it all started from there.”
Ireland captain McCabe enjoys stay in Australia with Foord
The couple showed off their athletic physiques while swimming.
McCabe’s ex-partner Ruesha Littlejohn (left) shocked football fans in this aggressive interaction with Foord (right) at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia last year.
McCabe said their shared love of football brought them together.
“We are both passionate about it, obviously our aim is to win trophies and qualify for championships with the Republic of Ireland,” he added. “We are both very motivated.
“Don’t get me wrong, we have faced each other a few times in certain matches and training sessions, but that is an integral part of the game. We are very professional when we play football, that is our main objective.
“We’ll be able to relax when we get back home.”
Foord previously declined to comment on the dispute and there is no suggestion she was involved in the breakdown of Littlejohn and McCabe’s relationship.
