{"id":6968,"date":"2023-11-16T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:45:37","slug":"sammy-wynne-it-will-be-surreal-to-play-at-the-swansea-com-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/sammy-wynne-it-will-be-surreal-to-play-at-the-swansea-com-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Wynne: It will be “surreal” to play at the Swansea.com Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Swansea City midfielder Sammy Wynne is set to fulfil a life-long dream by playing at the Swansea.com Stadium this weekend. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 21-year-old has supported the Swans since her childhood and now has the chance to take to the hallowed turf for the first time as the club host Wrexham in the Genero Adran Premier on Sunday (KO 17:10). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited,\u201d Wynne told Swansea City\u2019s official channels<\/a><\/u><\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a really surreal moment. I have flashbacks of sitting in the South Stand as a season ticket holder since I was kid, dreaming of playing on the pitch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never thought it would happen, but the fact that it is going to happen is really exciting and I can\u2019t wait!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wynne grew up as part of the Swansea academy set-up but departed for Bristol City at the age of 13, spending five years with the Robins before a switch to Oxford United. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After gaining experience in the English third tier, the chance arose for Wynne to return to her hometown club this summer and she signed a semi-professional contract in SA1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The midfielder came off the bench to make her debut against Wrexham on the opening day of the season and then netted her first Swans goal a week later on her first start against Barry Town United. She has kept her place in the starting XI ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That opening day meeting with Wrexham at The Rock was a remarkable affair, with Katy Hosford scoring a 94th<\/sup>-minute equaliser for Swansea after Hannah Keryakoplis had put the hosts 3-2 ahead in the 89th<\/sup>\u00a0minute.\u00a0
Ahead of Sunday\u2019s reverse fixture, the Swans sit third in the Genero Adran Premier table \u2013 three points behind Wrexham who are second.\u00a0
\u201cIt\u2019s a really important game,\u201d Wynne said. \u201cThe game that we had up there was tough, but we did really well in the circumstances.\u00a0
\u201cThey had a good atmosphere up there and I know that we will be able to do that when they come down here as well. We can try to make it difficult for them, playing at the stadium, hopefully that can work as our advantage.\u201d
Following defeat to Cardiff City in the south Wales derby a fortnight ago, Swansea will be keen to make up ground on the league leaders while knowing that victory by two goals or more will take them second.\u00a0
Both of their two matches at the Swansea.com Stadium last season attracted four-figure crowds and with great strides taken in the women\u2019s set-up over the summer, they will be hopeful of beating their record 1,426 attendance achieved against Cardiff Met.\u00a0
\u201cI have played in a couple of big crowds before and you can really feel the energy that the noise can give you,\u201d Wynne said. \u201cSo hopefully that can help us and give us that extra couple of percent that we might need.\u201d\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swansea City midfielder Sammy Wynne is set to fulfil a life-long dream by playing at the Swansea.com Stadium this weekend.  The 21-year-old has supported the Swans since her childhood and now has the chance to take to the hallowed turf for the first time as the club host Wrexham in the Genero Adran Premier on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":6937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.38,"y":0.23},"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adran-premier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}