ada hegerbergs season had been cut short by the time the new coronavirus wiped out the football calendar but the break has given her time to rehabilitate her injured knee and the ballon dorwinning striker is relishing her return to trainingolympique lyonnais hegerberg ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in training in january a cruel blow that immediately ended the prolific forwards campaignrecent footage posted on social media however has shown her running on a speciallyadapted treadmill and doing agility drills as she builds up her strength ahead of next season and hegerberg hopes to kick a ball again soonthe weirdlooking machines been my best friend for weeks now but its going very well were in the schedule following the plan she told reuters in a video call from poznan in poland where her husband thomas rogne plays for lech poznanive got very competent people around me who are helping me with my programme and my process and everything so i feel like i can just lean back and work hard and know that were getting therestill only 24 hegerberg who has signed a new 10year sponsorship deal with nike has already won five french league titles and four champions league trophies with lyon scoring 216 goals in 177 appearances for the clubthe inaugural winner of the womens ballon dor in 2018 awarded to the worlds best player her status in the game is a far cry from humble beginnings as a junior player in the small norwegian town of sunndalsora where she grew uphigher levelobviously i started playing football because of the passion i dont think the main ambition for a woman or a girl when they start playing football is because of money or the status or the fame she saidyet with the womens game increasing in popularity and with greater global visibility there have been some improvements for the playersits starting to change a little bit now where more and more women can profit from being professional footballers so hopefully it will change more and more she addedits our job to really work hard and stay out of that comfort zone in order to raise the levelthe norway forwards new sponsorship deal will make her one of nikes most highprofile athletes and hegerberg hopes it will help her on the pitch and also give her a platform off itthe very most important thing is going to be performance performing is the most important thing in an athletes career and its the most important thing in my head as well she saidan ongoing dispute with the norwegian football association led to her missing last years world cup in france but she is not yet willing to talk about an international comebackright now im in my rehab bubble before i can even answer or think about subjects like that i need to really get back on the pitch and deliver again and get back stronger than ever and be me on the pitch she said