Rhiannon Roberts: Wales defender has no club but focus is on Euro 2025

Roberts received the primary of her 79 caps 10 years in the past.She says the watch for a primary main finals look has been too lengthy to let the shortage of readability on her future come into her pondering.Wales’ journey to the European Championship has included qualification near-misses, one in all which got here in Switzerland. Roberts was a goalscorer as Wales led the Swiss in Zurich in a World Cup play-off in 2022, just for the hosts to triumph with seconds remaining in additional time, denying Gemma Grainger’s aspect within the cruellest of fashions.”I’ve by no means felt heartbreak like that, to be trustworthy,” Roberts mentioned. “I might moderately have misplaced on penalties. I did not sleep for 2 weeks and needed to get sleeping tablets by the tip.”I keep in mind occurring the subsequent camp and we did a evaluation and I believed ‘oh, I can not see this once more’.”Fortunately, Roberts is one in all 17 of the 23 gamers concerned in that Switzerland defeat who finally reached a serious event beneath Rhian Wilkinson. “All the things shapes us to be the individuals we’re. Perhaps if that had gone otherwise, we would not be on this second now both,” Roberts added. “It is like every part paved the way in which for this to be the yr. Going again hasn’t acquired something to do with being there now and giving our greatest whereas we’re there.”