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Euro 2025From a job in prison at the Euro in Switzerland
The Welsh Rachel Rowe experienced the jobs and the kilometers to study before touching the top of her sport, at the European Women’s Championship in Switzerland.
The Welsh appreciates the journey and the destination …
IMAGO/PA Images“I did a lot of different professions … When I got out of college, I had to work well!” In an interview given to the BBCthe 32-year-old Welshman Rachel Rowe returned to her footballer’s journey but not that, and it’s worth it … The middle of Southampton will celebrate this weekend her 77th selection in the national jersey. Her first was more than a decade ago, when she was still far from touching professionalism.
On the sidelines of the ball game, she first worked at the B&M Discounter, before being engaged by the local prisons department. “In our group here in Switzerland, there are different generations and a lot of different experiences. There are those who came out of school and have become pros directly. My trip was completely different, but that is what built the person I am today, “said the former Junior of Cardiff.
But just because she started touching at the highest level – she played in club in Swansea, Reading, Rangers and today in the saints – that she has always turned her thumbs between two training sessions. When she left to play in Berkshire, she did not drop her studies as a “business administration” to the Welsh government. A nice detour of some 450 km round trip to perform three times a week.
“I did this for a year and I was stiff,” smiled the one with whom “nobody wanted to play”, when she was playing with a team of boys, fearing to be ridiculed by a girl. Fortunately, her training then mounted in the English elite and a professional contract was profiled for her. “It’s been almost ten years since I earned my life with football and it has been weird,” she added. And then there, there is this euro arriving … “
This is the very first big first competition that his country will play and that does something to him. “When you arrived in Switzerland and saw the bus with the Euro logo, it touched directly at the heart,” said Rachel Rowe. It was a question of digesting all this and not to cry too much, because it finally seemed real! ” There will still be a small tear on Saturday when the Welsh anthem is played before the match against the Netherlands in Lucerne …
