{"id":7246,"date":"2024-02-14T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:01:02","slug":"swansea-city-stars-visit-half-term-girls-only-soccer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/swansea-city-stars-visit-half-term-girls-only-soccer-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City stars visit half-term girls-only soccer camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Swans_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Swans_banner.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Swans_banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Swans_banner-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/Swans_banner-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The sun was shining on Penyrheol on the first day of half-term &#8211; all the better for one hundred budding players to enjoy a girls-only soccer camp with Swansea City.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by captain Katy Hosford and the club&#8217;s foundation coaches, the girls were also joined by Swans stars Robyn Pinder, Sophie Brisland-Hancocks and Sammy Wynne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was really nice to see so many girls there having fun and quite a few who have never been to a football camp before when I was speaking to them,&#8221; says Robyn, who adds that she and Sophie had already discussed that whenever they went to similar events as children, they were always the only girls there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And although girls&#8217; camps are great places to hone the skills of talented players, they are also brilliant for other reasons &#8211; not least of all the chance to meet new people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not always about trying to find the best players,&#8221; says Robyn. &#8220;They&#8217;re socialising with other girls from the area and making new friends &#8211; when I was having a chat with a few of the girls asking if they were enjoying it, lots of them were saying, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;ve made two friends today.&#8217;\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swansea City hope&nbsp;that the girls from the camp will continue to enjoy football on and off the pitch in the future &#8211; perhaps going to matches to cheer on the Swans during Phase Two of the Genero Adran Premier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast time we played at the [Swansea.com] stadium, there were loads of girls in the crowd supporting us,&#8221; recalls Robyn. &#8220;We all stayed behind for an hour signing things: boots, shin pads, socks. Hopefully the camps can encourage more spectators next time &#8211; it would be awesome to see them there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining on Penyrheol on the first day of half-term &#8211; all the better for one hundred budding players to enjoy a girls-only soccer camp with Swansea City. Led by captain Katy Hosford and the club&#8217;s foundation coaches, the girls were also joined by Swans stars Robyn Pinder, Sophie Brisland-Hancocks and Sammy Wynne. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":7133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.56,"y":0.31},"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"class_list":["post-7246","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\/7246","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}