My Game

Foyer match reporter, Kate Wilson, relishes her chance to play in Cape Town

It was the last day of the Homeless World Cup and Anna, a girl from the Ugandan team, had set up a girls only match involving all the female players from the Homeless World Cup, and me!

The reason I got a chance is because the England management team told them I
wanted to play and I was good.

Strangely I was put onto the same side as Lindsey Cooper who lives in a Scottish Foyer and, considering I live in Torbay Foyer, you couldn’t get any two British
foyers further away form each other.

It was one of the highlights of the whole tournament for me. I didn’t think I would get game. Everyone else on our team couldn’t speak a word of English. The crowd were going nuts and all the English and all the Scottish lads were there cheering us on (the Irish tried but there taxi was 2 hours late.)

It was a fantastic atmosphere and I remember at the start of the game I did a little trick and turned the girl that was marking me and I heard a guy from the crowd shout "that white girl got skill" which made me chuckle.

I would love to see more girls getting into the Homeless World Cup and I have decided to make it a mission of mine to get a girls tournament going at thesame time. I am not sure if it is possible but I am going to try my best.

In the end we won 5-1 and I scored a goal I was quite disappointed as I didn’t score more but I hadn’t played a game for about 3 months so I thought I did ok. Lindsey was great too, (she even won female player of the tournament for her part in Scotland’s matches).

I think between us we set a great standard for future British girls.