Rachel Corsie: The Scottish captain announces the retirement of football after the matches of the League of Nations | Football news

The Scottish captain Rachel Corsie will retire football after the next matches of the League of Nations against Austria and the Netherlands.

The defender, who has 154 caps for the national team, was called back to the team by the new head coach Melissa Andreatta last week.

However, a series of injuries had left her in “Chronic Pain” and after six surgeries – including five on his left knee – Corsia admits that it is a good time to retire.

The 35-year-old man played for nine clubs in Scotland, England, the United States and Australia during an 18-year-old career.

However, Corsia insists on hanging up her boots after a last parade for Scotland, with whom she reached two major finals, is the ideal way to say goodbye to the game.

She said: “I obviously had a really difficult year. My body, I think, really wanted it to be my last year.

“My heart and my head were stubborn and said I am not quite ready.

“Return by playing at the end of the season [following knee surgery in October] It was a really difficult ambition and goal, but we got there. I want to play in the WSL, to play international football, I think it’s the highest level.

“To be 36 years old in August and know that I came to this point by playing at the highest level and I will stop at that time, I think it’s the right place for me.”

A return of surgery was in doubt

Corsia returned to the action of its last knee operation in April, four months later than expected.

The October procedure was to keep it away for eight weeks, instead of the six months that followed, leaving Corsia fearing that her career ends on the sidelines.

She added: “The surgeon said to me before undergoing surgery, that my knee was quite worrying and that surgery will potentially grant a certain relief, but there is a very serious probability that the damage that has been caused during my career will have an impact on the rest of my life.

“The precise moment that I knew there was a specific injury that was going to prevent me, I wanted to do the operation because I knew that I could not come back by playing, leaving it as is.

“I was essentially in chronic pain all the time, like going up and down the stairs to the house, sitting in the car for periods, going to the toilet, entering and getting out of the shower and having to go out on the bath, like all these little things, as they are the daily things that for me are not now normal.

“When you tolerate it in sport, when you are going to do your training, you are ready to accept a certain level of pain and discomfort, but I think that is the rest of your day where it probably affects you more because there is no respite for that.

“I would say that the first half of the season, especially from October to January – was a much more difficult trip.

“I have done a lot of rehabilitation, and I sometimes find the process of it, because you just follow the steps and you get there, and you feel good once you get there.

“The mental challenge of this, emotional stress and knowing it could now be your last year, and potentially you are not going to come back – I think it’s something for an extremely difficult athlete.

“This is not the end that anyone who wants, where you don’t really get the word on your conditions.

“This was also out of the back of the previous season – I was available for each match and I played in each club match and all the cup games, bar one, where I was suspended, what I would also add that it is the only game of my senior career, in club, for which I was suspended! I think I did well to do it so far.

“It was a difficult journey. There were a few other small bad guys, which are really common. It was frustrating in its own right. I did it and it was worth all these days of pain.”

‘Scotland goodbye the perfect end’

The last two Corsia games are at home against Austria on May 30, before going to the Netherlands four days later.

The central rear, which is third on the list of cap holders of all time, revealed that its two highlights of all time came with the national team, which means that it was the ideal way to complete its career.

“Without a doubt, the best thing I have ever done in my life is to play and represent your country,” she said.

“There is nothing that I lived in sport like that. It is something for me that I will cherish and take with me for the rest of my life.”

When asked if it looked like the perfect end, she added: “I think it is for me. I think it is a really unique opportunity.

“There is something special to be Scottish. I think it is the only thing that was the light I sometimes needed to continue, to continue to push.

“I’m so delighted that I will be included, I can get involved, and I can’t wait to be there.”

“One of my favorite moments and the moment I think I was the most euphoric, which brought the greatest joy was when we qualified for the World Cup in Albania.

“I always have a very lively visual in my head when the referee exploded full time. These feelings are simply unrivaled.

“In the sense of a big time off competition and powerful – I think it was the day we played England in this opening match at the World Cup that followed.

“Some of this includes accumulation, but I think that to direct your team during their very first game during the World Cup – it’s a moment that cannot be reproduced. It is one of those things that only happens once when you do things for the first time and this moment probably fills me with the most pride.

“You would not have dreamed of playing a World Cup when I was a child because you just didn’t know it was one thing.

“He [my career] Definitely exceeded everything I thought, because I don’t even think I thought what I did was even possible. It was certainly not possible when I started. “”

‘A power of women’s football ‘

Calling tribute to his former teammate, Comrade Plate and former international of Scotland Leanne Crichton said: “My first memory of Rachel was probably when she entered the U19 national team.

“She would only have been 17 years old, so she was a young man who was pushed up and that she was really silent, but we could say that she was quite curious and interested in everything that was going on.

“I remember that she played on the right wing at that time, and when you look at her career, it is absolutely unimaginable to think that she would have stayed there. So, whoever decided that she should return to the central defender, it was an absolute master of this coach.

“She was an incredible captain and chief for the national team, on and off the field, for what looks so long, a long time now. I have the impression that she has always been a leader, even before she was captain.

“She has always put the others and she always tried to try to make sure that the game is in the best possible place, both when it has been part of it and tries to try to lay the foundations and make sure that the game is in the best possible condition, it could be when it recuisted and hangs up the boots.

“We followed similar paths in the sense that we both played for the county of Notts, we both represented the national team, and we both played in Glasgow City. Our paths, at one point, parallel to each other.

“It was an absolute power in terms of women’s football in Scotland, but not only in Scotland, I think through the United Kingdom and even in America.

“When you look how much she worked on the field, to make sure that her game was in the best possible place – she is always quite comfortable and sufficiently willing to defend others, which, I think, is so precious and it is probably why she and I have the friendship that we have and that we are so strong in our convictions.”

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