SPORTS: THE BIG INTERVIEW JADE MOORE

VIBE joins Grace Wolfenden and Will Davidson in the commentary box to find out all about the Year 8-9 Football trip to Madrid. Olé! JADE MOORE Is ‘England footballer’ your dream career? VIBE spoke to Lioness Jade Moore about playing in the World Cup and what life as a professional footballer is really like.

SPORT THE BIG INTERVIEW JADE MOORE, ENGLAND FOOTBALL TEAM

HOW DID YOU END UP IN FOOTBALL? My route into football started with going and watching my dad play football. I used to stand on the side of the pitch with my grandad and just kick the ball back and forth with him. I didn’t really take much interest in what my dad was doing on the pitch, but I was just fixated with the football and always had one at my feet.

When I was around 10 years of age, I first got into a local football team. It was a girls football team, because then there weren’t many boys teams that allowed girls to play. Once I got into a team, they said ‘okay, she’s a little bit better than this level. Let’s take it to a better team and see where she goes’. So I ended up at Doncaster Rovers Belles, which was a massive team back in the day for women’s football and that was basically where my career started.

WHAT’S BEEN THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR CAREER? I’ve got three highlights to my career. Obviously one is playing in the recent World Cup in France, and seeing the number of fans and how much the popularity of popularity of women’s football has grown since since the previous one.

Winning the bronze medal in the 2015 World Cup in Canada will always be a highlight too, as a great achievement for us as a group. The momentum was with us and then we took every game that came and we were so close to making the final that year.

From a domestic side, my highlight would be the Champions League semi final when I played for Birmingham. We were underdogs throughout the whole of that and that was a very special moment for the club and my career at that time.

WHAT MIGHT A TYPICAL DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE FOR PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER? A typical day in the life of a professional footballer starts early. You wake up and go straight into training. Breakfast with the team and then into the gym for some sort of pre activation work to help with niggles or stop injuries, and then out into the training field. We

train for roughly an hour and a half to two hours, have lunch, and then get back into the gym for a strength and conditioning session. So we probably start at around nine and finish training around 3.30pm.

The rest of the day is usually spent recuperating, resting, and making sure you’re doing all the other stuff off the pitch. That’s taking care of your nutrition, hydration recovery, that side of things. So it’s nonstop from the minute that you wake up to the time that you go to sleep. It is football mad.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT FOOTBALL? The thing that I enjoy most about football is being part of a team. Because you can rely on other people, to dig you out if you’re not having a great game. You’ve got people to lean on. When I grew up, I tended to lean towards team sports rather than individual sports. I like the camaraderie and the banter that comes along with it. There is never a dull moment.

And the competitive side of sports has always been something that’s driven me. I think every sports person is very competitive, I certainly am.

HAVE YOU GOT A PIECE OF ADVICE THAT YOU’D GIVE A YOUNG PERSON? I know it’s quite cliche, but my advice in life is to never give up. No matter how many people tell you that you can’t do it, if you know that you can, if you keep pushing and if you keep doing the right things, then you will get there. If you’ve got the determination, the strength and the attitude of hard work, you’ll get there. So don’t give up. Make sure you work hard.

I think one of the biggest things is to make sure that whatever you do, you enjoy it. Doing it with a smile on your face makes a big difference.

Check out our video interview with Jade on our school Youtube channel.

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Ryburn Valley High School production of 11 - 13 February 2020

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