Beattie received 4 league titles with Arsenal and one with Manchester Metropolis throughout her time in England.
She additionally performed for French membership Montpellier and had a mortgage spell in Australia with Melbourne Metropolis earlier than transferring to the US in 2024.
She is now following within the footsteps of her father John, who’s a profitable broadcaster and former Scotland rugby union participant.
“I’ve completely liked working with totally different broadcasters and overlaying the ladies’s sport,” stated Beattie.
“I grew up watching my dad do it for rugby and I at all times thought that was actually cool.
“It is wonderful the protection that the ladies’s sport will get now and I need to be part of that. It retains you near soccer. It is also the adrenaline of that dwell [sport].
“You are feeling your coronary heart pumping proper earlier than. I feel that is the closest factor I am going to ever get to taking part in 90 minutes of soccer in entrance of a sold-out crowd.”
Beattie’s soccer journey has not been easy after receiving a breast most cancers prognosis in October 2020.
She scored for Arsenal in a 5-0 win over Brighton three days later and recovered from most cancers after having radiotherapy.
Since then, she has advocated for most cancers analysis and consciousness, successful the Helen Rollason Award at BBC Sports activities Character of the 12 months in 2021.
“It undoubtedly modified lots of elements about my profession. However it made me take pleasure in it much more as a result of I would gone via one thing so troublesome,” stated Beattie.
“It introduced me nearer to team-mates, it made me respect my job much more and it acquired me working for one thing greater than soccer.
“I am going to by no means remorse talking out about it and being as sincere as I may, and nonetheless to this present day I actually discover it necessary to share stuff that is actually troublesome.
“It made me realise the larger image of soccer – it is not every thing. What actually issues is well being, happiness, family and friends.”
