She was the number one goalkeeper for the women for fifteen years and national team manager for eleven years. No one is more connected with the history of Belgian women’s football than Anne Noë. From the black mud pit in the shadow of Sclessin to the perfectly manicured fields at the Belgian Football Centre in Tubize, she had a front row seat for the entire evolution. She learned to play on the cobblestones of the Old Market in Leuven and played her first national team matches in an old shirt that belonged to Jean-Marie Pfaff, as there was not budget for a kit of their own.