INGLE Sophie

Date of Birth: 2 Sep 1991

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.67/5'5''

Place of birth: PENARTH

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Place of residence : STAFFORD

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Football	Women GBR Great Britain	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Sapporo Dome	Women's Group E #02 GBR Great Britain 2 CHI Chile 0	Finished
	Sapporo Dome	Women's Group E #07 JPN Japan 0 GBR Great Britain 1	Finished
	Ibaraki Kashima Stadium	Women's Group E #14 CAN Canada 1 GBR Great Britain 1	Finished
	Ibaraki Kashima Stadium	Women's Quarter-final #19 GBR Great Britain 3 AUS Australia 4 AET	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Occupation:

Coaching, Sport Studies - Cardiff Metropolitan University, Great Britain

Languages spoken:

Chelsea [London, GBR] since 2018/19

Emma Hayes [club], ENG; Hege Riise [national], NOR

Position style:

Midfielder (chelseafc.com, 01 May 2019)

National league:

Women's Super League [ENG] (theguardian.com, 09 May 2021)

She began playing at age seven in Barry, Wales. Her first club was boys' team Vale Wanderers. (walesonline.co.uk, 15 May 2021; bbc.co.uk, 20 Sep 2020)

Her older brother Scott played football. "My mum would take me to watch him on a Saturday and there was another football team playing at the time, a younger one. One of the coaches saw that I was kicking a ball on the side, and happened to start speaking to mum, to say, 'Does she want to join?' It just went from there, really. I suppose if I didn't have my brother playing football, then I would never have seen it really or played it." (walesonline.co.uk, 15 May 2021, 01 Jun 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (walesonline.co.uk, 27 May 2021)

Her family. (walesonline.co.uk, 15 May 2021)

She was voted 2018/19 Players' Player of the Year at her club Chelsea. (chelseafc.com, 01 May 2019)

In 2016 she was named Wales' Players' Player of the Year and Wales' Supporters Players of the Year. (chelseafc.com, 01 May 2019)

General Interest

General
EARLY DAYS
She began the sport playing as the only girl in her local boys' team Vale Wanderers in Barry, Wales, but she was forced to stop playing in an organised team at age 12 due to rules imposed by the Football Association of Wales [FAW]. Despite making an appeal to the FAW, she was unable to join another club until Vale Wanderers set up a girls' team when she was age 14. "I grew up with those lads and they were really close friends of mine. To then not be able to play just because I was a girl, I felt hard done by, really. It's weird because I had a whole year out but I don't actually remember not playing. I was probably still playing in the street with my friends and even at the school team but for club football, obviously there was no girls' teams at the time so I had to stop. I've always said that [playing with the boys] made me the player I am today. Those boys pushed me around and treated me like one of them." (walesonline.co.uk, 15 May 2021; bbc.co.uk, 20 Sep 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
AET:: After Extra Time

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