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Sky Sports News Senior Reporter Geraint Hughes watches an exciting year for women from Wales as they join the elite in the League of Nations and Euro 2025 …
Wales’s Euro qualification was dramatically sealed. There were high emotions in what was sometimes a crazy play-off in Dublin, while Wales threw out the Republic of Ireland in December.
She achieved two great things and put Wales in great positions, but I can’t come back from the level they are now.
First they qualified for the Euro 2025 – the first major Wales Women’s Tournament – and second promoted Wales to the highest layer of the League of Nations.
League A, Elite, Top 16 European teams, including world champions of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands to list them.
On EUR and the upcoming league nation, only Iceland has a smaller population and therefore a player than Wales.
But the management of Wales, the players and the truly executive director of Fawa no longer want to hear the tag ‘Little Ol’ Wales’.
Underdogs maybe, but one that will be respected, even a European old guard dare, which includes England.
While Wales prepares to face Italy and Sweden in her introductory nations games, he is so much that manager Rhian Wilkinson and her staff need and want to learn.
Indeed, if knowledge could be soaked with sponges, Wales would buy any large supermarket section.
It’s a learning curve, but learning must be fast.
Performance or results? It is probably 50.1 percent to performance, so Wales is willing to seek euros in its introductory game against the Netherlands, but the results cannot only be renounced in the League of Nations.
Wilkinson will require their players to fight and learn quickly (use those sponges of knowledge!) Fast!
Wales cannot overturn Italy, Sweden or Denmark. It would be a moral letting go to the euros after hiding in the League of Nations.
So what did Wales have to avoid this?
The moment in the history in which a group of players is truly talented.
Maybe compare this Wales class from 2025. With your male compatriots in 2016, with Bale and Ramsey at its peak.
Wales women have a legend of a game in their midst in Jess Fishlock, but along with those seriously good experienced professionals like Captain Angharada James, Rachel Rowe and Hayley Ladd.
Mix in younger players, teenagers like Mared Griffiths and Mayzee Davies who received Manchester Utd and Manchester City at the age of 17 and 18, quickly bring them to their first teams.
Now there is a pool of the talent that Wales had before.
Add to that, no one really knows the potential of Wales, certainly no one outside Wales, which is a huge advantage for 2025.
Wales loves Underdog, they also love shock.
The law on balance of Wales Rhian Wilkinson’s leader should be released by the unprecedented and unknown to try to cause Mayhem and panic among opponents, while learning to adapt to play more like an established side like England.
Whatever, it will be fun because the Wales Group seems to be smiling, enjoying the moment and planning that shock.
