{"id":662646,"date":"2025-12-30T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662646\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:35:11","slug":"jess-fishlock-rhian-wilkinson-hopes-wales-legend-will-join-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662646\/","title":{"rendered":"Jess Fishlock: Rhian Wilkinson hopes Wales legend will join coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

As well as the Czech Republic and Montenegro, Wales will take on Albania in Group B1 in World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n

There is no chance to qualify automatically for the tournament because Wales are in League B, meaning Wilkinson’s team will need to come through a play-off campaign which could feature three stages if they are to reach a first Women’s World Cup.<\/p>\n

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 can mount a World Cup qualification challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fishlock, meanwhile, says the “future is really bright” as a number of younger players try to establish themselves with Wales \u2013 and wants to help them along the way.<\/p>\n

“Being a part of the group and their future is something I would love of course,” Fishlock told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n

“I’d love to be able to give experience and sometimes a little bit of calmness.<\/p>\n

“It’s just how and what that looks like. Obviously I live in America so that makes it a little bit tricky, but I’d love to try to work something out with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as the Czech Republic and Montenegro, Wales will take on Albania in Group B1 in World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-662646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115809022386335326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}