@chris-brookes.bsky.social
Men’s/women’s football writer. Editor: Her Goal (formerly known as She Kicks) magazine 🏴. Ex-Boston Breakers (NWSL) ⚽️🇺🇸 media. SWFC 🦉 fan. Talking music with footballers on http://beatsandrhymesfc.com (since 2011)
Hayley Raso on her Portland Thorns years 🌹 #BAONPDX #NWSL
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“[The national team is] a place where I feel very happy, very confident, really valued. I think you can see that I’m this top version of myself there... I think everything I do is for [the Matildas].”
Six-page Hayley Raso 🇦🇺 interview for @hergoalmagazine.bsky.social
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Kaylan Marckese: “I talk a lot with [ex-Arsenal teammate] Viv Miedema about how things are going; she’s really great at checking in on my mental health and on me personally.” #awfc
“Players who wanted to leave a club and weren’t allowed, or wanted to stay and progress and were forced to go on loan. Girls who were at a club for a really long time and didn’t feel like that was respected and they were pushed out.”
Kaylan Marckese: “I’ve had a lot of conversations with teammates from different clubs who went through emotional turmoil... [Players] sent home for the break and told two days after that they weren’t going to continue their contract, then had that situation lied about to the team that remained.”
Kaylan Marckese: “I got sent on loan [to Bristol City] when I didn’t think I was mentally ready to leave that kind of support system [at Arsenal] because I struggled with my mental health throughout my whole career... I ended up tearing my ACL pretty quickly, after playing so, so poorly.” #awfc
“I was thrown into things too early, and they didn’t properly go through all the information Arsenal sent over… Mentally, I was just kind of spiralling, and really, really not liking the environment and the culture.“
Kaylan Marckese: “I was supposed to come to a brand-new club [Tampa Bay Sun], my hometown, and I was immediately crushed [after tearing an ACL]. I was really, really unhappy with how they treated me as an injured player going through a huge setback in my rehab.“
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“I want to go somewhere I’m valued as a human being, and it just felt like in soccer I wasn’t getting that.”
Former Arsenal keeper Kaylan Marckese speaks in detail publicly for the first time on retiring from playing at 27. In our new @hergoalmagazine.bsky.social
Free access to follow below. #awfc
The new issue of @hergoalmagazine.bsky.social is here ⚫️⚪️
Featuring cover star 🌟 and Newcastle United captain, Demi Stokes (and so many others).
Available from today on UK news stands, or order online: womensfootballmagazine.com/product/her-...
#nuwfc #nufc #BarclaysWSL2 #BarclaysWSL #lionesses
“At Arsenal, I’ve found a place where I’m treated well, valued highly and supported in showing my best.”
In-depth Mariona Caldentey interview 🔴⚪️🇪🇸
In our new issue of @hergoalmagazine.bsky.social.
Get yours here (or in UK supermarkets/retailers): womensfootballmagazine.com/product/her-... #awfc
Learn more about NC's new striker here, from @chris-brookes.bsky.social!
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Aston Villa prospect Lydia Sallaway has joined #SWPL leaders Glasgow City 🏴 on loan for the rest of the season.
The England youth defender, 18, signed her first professional contract at Villa last summer.
#BarclaysWSL #avwfc
📸 Georgia Reynolds/Glasgow City FC
West Ham have signed 19-year-old defender Ria Bose 🏴 from Sporting CP 🇵🇹
The England Under-20 joins until summer 2028.
(📸 WHUFC) #BarclaysWSL #whufc
The latest Norwegian in the #BarclaysWSL 🏴
Liverpool have signed 24-year-old attacker Anna Jøsendal 🇳🇴 from Hammarby.
(📸 Nick Taylor/LFC) #lfcw
London City Lionesses have appointed recent Newcastle United manager Becky Langley as assistant coach.
#BarclaysWSL #LCLionesses #NUWFC
📸 Nina Farooqi
Brighton have signed 25-year-old midfielder Olaug Tvedten 🇳🇴 from Vålerenga.
#BarclaysWSL #bhafcwomen (📸 BHAFC)
West Ham’s Shekiera Martínez 🇩🇪 has won #BarclaysWSL Goal of the Month for her overhead kick v Manchester United.
Manchester City’s Andrée Jeglertz 🇸🇪 wins #BarclaysWSL Manager of the Month for the third time in a row.
#mcwfc
Manchester City’s Bunny Shaw 🇯🇲 is the #BarclaysWSL Player of the Month for December. 🔥
#mcwfc #reggaegirlz
Please share ⚽️ Calling future Fran Kirbys 🚨
Junior players wanting to be in the UK’s longest-running women’s footy magazine, Her Goal (formerly She Kicks) is looking for participants in our Born Kicking Q&A.
📧 cbrookes@balticpublications.co.uk
Be like this past interviewee👇 (it’s Fran Kirby btw…)
Sweden goalkeeper Jennifer Falk 🇸🇪 has signed for Liverpool on loan for the remainder of the season.
The 32-year-old moves overseas for the first time in her career, joining a relegation battle at the bottom side in the #BarclaysWSL. #LFCW
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Birmingham City have signed London City Lionesses’ Lotta Lindström 🇫🇮 on loan.
The 21-year-old joins the #BarclaysWSL2 promotion chasers for the rest of the season.
(📸 BCFC) #bcfcwomen #lclionesses #BarclaysWSL
🚨 MAGAZINE OPPORTUNITY (for junior footballers) - please share
Does your footy-mad youngster want to be in an issue of Her Goal magazine (previously known as She Kicks)?
To feature in our ‘Born Kicking’ Q&A, email: cbrookes@balticpublications.co.uk
“People came running into the gym - ‘Is everyone all right?’ 🚨
…I was like, ‘It’s just a good song!’”
The 🎶⚽️ story of Brighton forward Madison Haley. North Dallas 🇺🇸 to South Coast 🏴
Our in-depth interview:
beatsandrhymesfc.com/madison-hale... #BarclaysWSL #BHAWFC (📸 Paul Hazlewood / #BHAFC)
“Australia was the only place I was eligible for, I thought… When I told my dad (about representing Greece), he just started crying, & I thought that was such a beautiful thing.”
Latest 🎶⚽️ feature, with Hibernian’s #SWPL champion 🏴 Stacey Papadopoulos 🇦🇺🇬🇷
beatsandrhymesfc.com/stacey-papad... #Hibs
New issue of @hergoalmagazine.bsky.social, featuring #SpursWomen forward & cover star 💫 Cathinka Tandberg 🇳🇴
100 pages on the women’s game, and we’ll celebrate 30 years in 2026.
Available now in supermarkets/other retailers and online here: womensfootballmagazine.com/product/her-... #thfc
“Not being selected for the Euros was difficult… I came out of that experience hungrier than ever. It definitely gives me extra fire to prove myself.”
My feature with Sweden forward Evelyn Ijeh 🇸🇪🇳🇬
Music, #MilanFemminile 🇮🇹, Nigeria, #TigresFemenil 🇲🇽 & more:
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