{"id":7248,"date":"2024-02-15T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:05:15","slug":"interim-cymru-head-coach-jon-grey-praises-talent-in-adran-leagues-following-olivia-francis-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/interim-cymru-head-coach-jon-grey-praises-talent-in-adran-leagues-following-olivia-francis-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Cymru head coach Jon Grey praises talent in Adran Leagues following Olivia Francis call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2023-09-22_CymruWU19_vs_ROIWU19_NCM-0049.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2023-09-22_CymruWU19_vs_ROIWU19_NCM-0049.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2023-09-22_CymruWU19_vs_ROIWU19_NCM-0049-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2023-09-22_CymruWU19_vs_ROIWU19_NCM-0049-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2023-09-22_CymruWU19_vs_ROIWU19_NCM-0049-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interim Cymru head coach Jon Grey praised the talent in the Genero Adran Leagues upon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/news\/cymru-squad-announced-to-face-republic-of-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>announcing his squad<\/u><\/a>\u00a0for this month\u2019s friendly against the Republic of Ireland.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Included in the squad for the first time is 17-year-old Olivia Francis, who only last season was playing in the Genero Adran Premier for Pontypridd United.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teenager scored 11 goals in 20 league appearances for the Dragons and capped an impressive breakthrough campaign by winning the Genero Adran Premier Young Player of the Season award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She secured a move to Women\u2019s Super League side Manchester United last summer, making a first appearance in a competitive matchday squad when the Red Devils travelled to Southampton in the Adobe Women\u2019s FA Cup last weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has certainly been a rapid rise for Francis, who only made her Cymru WU19 debut last season after previously captaining the WU17 side.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re good enough, whatever level you\u2019re playing at, you\u2019ll find your way in this game,\u201d Grey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are players who are good enough in the Adran Leagues to make those steps to the first team, and once they get an opportunity, it\u2019s about showcasing themselves week in and week out and working their way up. There\u2019s definitely talented players out there across the leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted with how Liv has been in the U19 camps and it\u2019s a really good opportunity for her to come in and showcase herself to the other players and for us as a coaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim Cymru head coach Jon Grey praised the talent in the Genero Adran Leagues upon\u00a0announcing his squad\u00a0for this month\u2019s friendly against the Republic of Ireland.\u00a0 Included in the squad for the first time is 17-year-old Olivia Francis, who only last season was playing in the Genero Adran Premier for Pontypridd United.&nbsp; The teenager scored 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":7112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.55,"y":0.34},"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"class_list":["post-7248","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\/7248","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=7248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}