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South Wales Argus
24 minutes ago
- South Wales Argus
I'm feeling really good – Sophie Ingle relishing Euros dream after knee injury
Former national team captain Ingle suffered ACL damage in a Chelsea pre-season friendly in September and has not played since. Ingle has taken a full part at Wales training in Switzerland, but it remains to be seen whether the 141-times capped midfielder will make the starting line-up for their Euros opener against the Netherlands on Saturday. Sophie Ingle, centre, during a Wales training session at the Sportanlage Guttingersreuti, Lauligstrasse in Switzerland (Nick Potts/PA) Speaking before the Lucerne clash, Ingle told Sky Sports: 'I've probably got a stronger knee than before, which is the crazy thing. 'That's already hard to process in your mind. It's definitely mentally (tougher) than physically. 'Can I do it? Can I get back to the level I was at?' 'You go through all those stages, but I'm very laid back and had full confidence in my medical team. That fully helps and it's paid off now I'm here. 'A lot of the girls have said to me over the last few days they can't believe I've been out nine months and look basically the same as before. 'I'm just pushing every single day and, whatever role I'm needed, I'll be there for the team. I'm feeling really good, which is the main thing.' Ingle revealed how a Christmas card from the Football Association provided extra motivation for her to make Rhian Wilkinson's 23-strong squad in Switzerland. She said: 'The FAW sent out a Christmas card of our photo when we qualified, the whole team, and there were a few words inside. 'So I put it up on my kitchen shelf. Every time I was in the kitchen that evening I'd look up, and that was just always my focus to get back for this tournament. 'Once the girls qualified in December, that was then my aim, to do everything I could to be in with a chance of getting selected. 'Then, once I got selected it was such a special feeling that all that hard work and those lonely days on your own in the gym kind of paid off.' Ingle is currently without a club after her second spell at Chelsea ended in May following seven trophy-filled years in west London. But the 33-year-old remains a standard-bearer for Welsh football, leading the national team 83 times between 2015 and 2024. Ingle said: 'I think us qualifying for the Euros helped my recovery, to have an aim in place. 'I always had the mentality that if I don't make it, at least I've tried and I've done everything that I can. 'They always say on average, it's nine to 12 months (to recover from an ACL injury), but it all depends on your body, how your surgery went, what actually was wrong with your knee.'
Times
an hour ago
- Times
Gareth Bale consortium makes £40m bid to buy Cardiff City
A consortium fronted by Gareth Bale has tabled a formal offer, believed to be in the region of £40million, to buy Cardiff City. Vincent Tan, the owner of the Welsh club relegated from the Championship to League One in May, has already indicated he is not prepared to sell to the former Real Madrid forward and his partners. But The Times understands an official bid has now been submitted, with the 35-year-old Bale thought to be backed in the venture by US investors. Cardiff's descent to the third tier of English football for the first time in more than 20 years has prompted what Tan and his colleagues consider a derisory offer, given the Malaysian billionaire has invested more than £200million in the club. It means the offer is likely to be met with instant rejection, even if it indicates a level of intent by the Bale-led group. Last month the former Wales international made no secret of his desire to own his home-town football club, describing a potential takeover as 'a dream come true'. 'We are interested in getting Cardiff,' Bale told Sky Sports. 'It's my home club, it's where I grew up and my uncle used to play for them. To be involved with an ownership group would be a dream come true. It is a club close to my heart and I would love to be able to be a part of growing Cardiff and taking it to the Premier League where it belongs. 'I know how amazing the Welsh fans and Cardiff fans are. It would be amazing to try and do something together. We are trying to engage with Cardiff and more news will come out on that in the future, but hopefully we can get something done.'
Leader Live
an hour ago
- Leader Live
Wales goalkeeper Olivia Clark goes from working at McDonald's to Euro 2025
Clark admits to a 'random' football journey that has taken her from defunct clubs to Champions League action in the Netherlands. But probably the strangest part of the story is that Clark actually began her international journey with Wales when she was still serving fast food customers in Lincoln. 'I was front of house at McDonald's, on the tills and taking orders,' said Clark, whose next task is to stop Manchester City star Vivianne Miedema and company when Wales meet the Netherlands in their Euro 2025 opener on Saturday. 'I was still doing that when I first got into the Wales set-up. 'I said to them, 'I've got to go now to go to international camp' and they were like, 'What?'. 'It was all very random, but then my whole career's been like that.' Prep time 🏃♀️ — Wales 🏴 (@Cymru) July 1, 2025 Clark began her football career at local club Lincoln Ladies and switched from her striker role after 'our goalkeeper fell ill one day'. While she would remain in situ, the team did not as Lincoln Ladies relocated to Nottingham and rebranded. Clark thought her sporting future might lie in cricket – she had played for Lincolnshire and the Yorkshire Diamonds development team – but was persuaded to train at seventh-tier Boston and progressed up the pyramid via Nettleham, Huddersfield and Coventry United. By then, her Wales career was up and running. 'I was on Twitter scrolling one day and saw the FAW holding a trial for Under-17s,' said Clark, now 23 and with 30 senior caps to her name ahead of Wales' major tournament bow in Lucerne. Tournament essentials 🤩🏴 — Wales 🏴 (@Cymru) July 1, 2025 'I said to my dad, 'Mum's Welsh, do you think I could play for Wales?'. He said, 'Of course', so he drove me four-and-a-half hours to Merthyr and I was soon invited to senior camp. 'It's been such an honour to play for Wales because it connects my family.' Clark's club career has taken her from Coventry – the Championship team were liquidated while she was there – to Bristol City, FC Twente in the Netherlands and back to the Women's Super League at Leicester. At Twente in the first half of this season she came up against Celtic, Chelsea and Real Madrid in the Champions League, getting a sneak preview of the talent coming through the Dutch ranks. Clark said: 'It was a good level of football, full of young players and an up and coming league. 'It was a dream to play in the Champions League, but the opportunity to come back to the WSL with Leicester was too good to turn down. 'Most of the top Dutch players are elsewhere such as the WSL or the German league, but their young players are technical, physical and very tactically intelligent. 'I think our first game will be quite physical and people will see us as underdogs. But I think we can surprise a lot of people in this tournament.'
