{"id":29591,"date":"2025-05-24T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/jess-fishlock-makes-seattle-reign-return-ahead-of-wales-double-header\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:15:39","slug":"jess-fishlock-makes-seattle-reign-return-ahead-of-wales-double-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/jess-fishlock-makes-seattle-reign-return-ahead-of-wales-double-header\/","title":{"rendered":"Jess Fishlock makes Seattle Reign return ahead of Wales double header"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jess Fishlock has returned from injury for Seattle Reign ahead of Wales&#8217; Nations League double header with Denmark and Italy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old was an unused substitute in a 2-1 defeat by Denmark last month and withdrew from the squad prior to the 1-1 draw with Sweden in Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Fishlock, who has won 160 caps for her country, was introduced off the bench in the 61st minute of Seattle Reign&#8217;s National Women&#8217;s Soccer League (NWSL) loss to Washington Spirit on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has been included by Rhian Wilkinson for Wales&#8217; upcoming matches with Denmark in Odense on 30 May and Italy in Swansea four days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about Fishlock at her squad announcement, Wilkinson said: &#8220;Jess is a Seattle player, and she&#8217;s obviously a Welsh legend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s had a few little niggling things, and Seattle have gone above and beyond at listening and supporting Jess, Angharad (James) and Lily (Woodham) in terms of their ambitions for the Euros. Whatever they list her as is what she is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had eyes on Jess either for about a month and a half, so I&#8217;ll leave it up to Seattle to qualify it as whatever they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales sit bottom of Nations League Group A4 having drawn two and lost two of their four matches so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgdnkvgldzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Fishlock has returned from injury for Seattle Reign ahead of Wales&#8217; Nations League double header with Denmark and Italy. The 38-year-old was an unused substitute in a 2-1 defeat by Denmark last month and withdrew from the squad prior to the 1-1 draw with Sweden in Gothenburg. But Fishlock, who has won 160 caps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[222,2059,10177,10180,10176,10179,354,10178,312],"class_list":["post-29591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-ahead","tag-double","tag-fishlock","tag-header","tag-jess","tag-reign","tag-return","tag-seattle","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29593,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591\/revisions\/29593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}