{"id":8010,"date":"2025-12-30T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:37:14","slug":"jess-fishlock-rhian-wilkinson-hopes-wales-legend-will-join-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8010","title":{"rendered":"Jess Fishlock: Rhian Wilkinson hopes Wales legend will join coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as the Czech Republic and Montenegro, Wales will take on Albania in Group B1 in World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no chance to qualify automatically for the tournament because Wales are in League B, meaning Wilkinson&#8217;s team will need to come through a play-off campaign which could feature three stages if they are to reach a first Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilkinson has said Wales are at the start of a new four-year cycle leading up the 2029 Euros, but has stressed that her team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9wvxpx9rdro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">can mount a World Cup qualification challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fishlock, meanwhile, says the &#8220;future is really bright&#8221; as a number of younger players try to establish themselves with Wales \u2013 and wants to help them along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being a part of the group and their future is something I would love of course,&#8221; Fishlock told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d love to be able to give experience and sometimes a little bit of calmness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just how and what that looks like. Obviously I live in America so that makes it a little bit tricky, but I&#8217;d love to try to work something out with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4g4v7we41xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as the Czech Republic &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}