She grew up on a farm outside Uniejow, a spa town of fewer than 2,000 people in central Poland.
If she wasn’t helping with the cows, she played football with her brothers – she was one of five siblings – as well as the local boys, outscoring them as if she were her idol Cristiano Ronaldo.
After she was spotted playing with local team Orleta Wielenin – she was the only girl playing – Pajor’s primary school PE teacher started to take her to tournaments in the town of Konin as her parents could not take time off from the farm.
Soon Pajor joined the youth system of women’s club Medyk Konin and she and older sister Paulina moved into a dormitory an hour from home.
Homesickness hit Pajor hard, but her parents had brought up a tough child.
“My ambition comes from my parents,” she told DAZN. “From a young age I saw how hard-working and ambitious they are. They instilled that in me, as well as never giving up.”
It was at Medyk that Pajor first met Nina Patalon, now Poland’s head coach, who at the time was coaching in the club’s youth set-up.
Patalon – the first woman in Poland to receive a Uefa Pro Diploma – has coached thousands of girls and women over the years, but she still remembers the moment she first saw a 10-year-old Pajor.
“Ewa came to one of my sessions with girls two years older than her, this tiny girl with a ball almost bigger than her,” Patalon told BBC Sport.
“At first, I thought she was way too small for the group. But then she started playing, and we were all stunned.
“Her speed, coordination, the way she moved with the ball – it was simply extraordinary. The older girls couldn’t handle her.
“Right after that training session, I called our club president and said: ‘We have to do everything to bring this girl here. She’s a Galactico.’ That was the beginning of a very special journey.”
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