{"id":62540,"date":"2026-10-11T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wales-forward-elise-hughes-focused-on-albania-play-off-before-world-cup-dream\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:36:59","slug":"wales-forward-elise-hughes-focused-on-albania-play-off-before-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wales-forward-elise-hughes-focused-on-albania-play-off-before-world-cup-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales forward Elise Hughes focused on Albania play-off before World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Wales forward Elise Hughes says the prospect of reaching the World Cup would fulfil a lifelong ambition but insists the focus remains on Tuesday’s play-off second leg against Albania.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rhian Wilkinson’s side take a slender 1-0 advantage into the return fixture in Llanelli after edging the first leg of their play-off semi-final.<\/a><\/p>\n

A draw would be enough to send Wales through to the next stage of qualifying for next summer’s tournament in Brazil.<\/p>\n

“When you’re a kid, it doesn’t get bigger than that,” Hughes said of playing at a World Cup.<\/p>\n

“You dream and you’re in the garden thinking of the World Cup and you’re at your grassroots team thinking of the World Cup.<\/p>\n

“Now this group has a chance to do it and that is the most important thing for the group here and now.<\/p>\n

“But to do that, we’ve got to win the game on Tuesday. This is the most important game to date because it’s next.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Wales forward Elise Hughes says the prospect of reaching the World Cup would fulfil a lifelong ambition but insists the focus remains on Tuesday’s play-off second leg against Albania. Rhian Wilkinson’s side take a slender 1-0 advantage into the return fixture in Llanelli after edging the first leg of their play-off semi-final. A draw would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[10045,805,4607,17066,8644,7069,5566,312,510],"class_list":["post-62540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-albania","tag-cup","tag-dream","tag-elise","tag-focused","tag-hughes","tag-playoff","tag-wales","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62540","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=62540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62542,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62540\/revisions\/62542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}