JILL SCOTT: What Football Can Teach Us | GREAT MOMENTS
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What is the Great Moments episode featuring Jill Scott about?
Hello, everyone. I'm Jamie Lang, and this is Great Moments. Hey, everyone. I hope you're well, and welcome back to Great Moments. Now, if you're new here, this is the place where I'm going to bring you a standout moment from one of my favorite Great Company conversations. These are the moments that have stayed with me long after the recording, and I hope you can take something away from them. Now, if today's conversation leaves you wanting more, you can find the link to the full episode in the show notes. So sit back, settle in, and here it is. You've had 161 caps for England.
Yeah, it's a lot. That is mad. Yeah, I can't believe it actually sometimes when I sit and talk about it because when I was a young girl who just fell in love with the game of football, I never thought I'd play one game for England, never mind 161. So yeah, I am very, very proud of that start when I reflect on it.
Are you actually proud? Because sometimes we just kind of say, I do this occasionally, which is where I think it's the Britishness in this, but also being a Northern Brit as well, it's even more so you don't do it right, which is where someone goes, are you proud? And I go, yeah, of course, I'm proud of myself. But actually, I don't really know if I'm proud of myself. I just kind of said, are you truly proud of yourself?
Yeah, with that one, I am. I think because and maybe it's because you're still going in your profession, whereas that part of my kind of life is over now, football. So I feel like I've closed the door on it. And maybe when I played, I was like, wow, I'm playing for England. But I was so focused on just football. given it everything that I had to put in good performances to try and contribute to a team win. But I think now that that chapter's been closed for three years, I think I've been able to reflect, kind of seen little clips back of like tournaments, the Euros win and stuff like that. And I think I can probably finally sit here now and say, I am proud that I did that. And don't get us wrong. I mean, I'm proud of the whole team.
I'm proud of women's football, especially reflecting back on the journey to getting... the euros win but probably just proud of being part of such a big thing like that when you have to close the door on something yeah how hard is that It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be from the sense that it was the perfect ending for me. The fact that we got that gold medal at Wembley, I think it felt like the right time to close the door. I felt like if I was closing it after that, it would have been like a rusty close where my body couldn't go anymore. My knee was starting to swell and I was carrying a lot of injuries. So it was just nice to probably just give that door a little push and be like, right, it's time now.
for the next chapter. And I knew deep down that tournament, I didn't play a lot.
How does Jill Scott describe being proud of earning 161 England caps?
I was on the bench and in training, I felt like the game was just starting to get away from us a little bit.
Can you feel that as a professional? A little bit. You can start to go, wow.
Yeah, I think when you've got players like Ella Toon, Alessia Russo, Lauren Hemp, who were younger and they're coming through and they're dancing around you at times, like you're not there. And I'm like, my head really wanted to do something that my body probably couldn't anymore. But I just felt extremely lucky that I'd made that squad. And the fact that I played about 35 minutes in the final, I kind of liked that. I was involved to a certain extent.
When you went onto the pitch for that final against Germany, did you know in your head, you're like, right, I'm just going to, you had three things, I'm going to run, that's okay. But I'm going to just be a bit aggressive. I'm going to get someone to know that they played against me. They're going to feel a bit like roughed up.
I was dying to get on because Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway, they'd literally ran every single minute in midfield. So they'd done about six, seven games. And my legs felt fresh because obviously I hadn't played a lot and I could see they were starting to cramp a little bit.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the Great Moments episode featuring Jill Scott about?
0:02–2:57
2
How does Jill Scott describe being proud of earning 161 England caps?
2:57–9:23
3
Why did Jill say retiring after the Euros felt like the right time?
9:23–12:48
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How did Jill prepare mentally and physically for coming on in the Euros final?
12:48–14:36
Speakers
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