Beever-jones Captures Euros Experience With 'memory Book'

Aggie Beever-Jones has had to bide her clip to acquisition a awesome tourney pinch England - truthful she is not going to fto it walk her by.

A caller emotion for photography and regular journals are helping nan 21-year-old bask Euro 2025 aft nan Covid-19 pandemic prevented her going to younker tournaments for her country.

Beever-Jones has been keen to research Switzerland, swimming successful Lake Zurich and making "a small representation book" to soak up cherished moments during nan tournament.

"Literally successful my container here, they gave america a journal. People are utilizing it nevertheless they wish, but I'm rather large connected penning worldly down," she revealed.

"I've sewage rather into photography truthful I return pictures. I've sewage my ain small wallchart of each game. It's a book afloat of each nan memories and small specifications that sometimes you mightiness forget.

"Every time we person a wellness [session], and 1 of nan physios writes a quote connected nan wall. I conscionable ever constitute it down, and effort to find nan joyousness successful nan small things.

"It tin get a spot repetitive doing nan aforesaid point each time truthful it's bully to return a measurement backmost from football, spot and admit everything other that's going on.

"I person a movie camera which I love, nan prints are successful my journal. I've sewage a fewer Polaroids stuck successful there."

Beever-Jones burst connected to nan segment connected her return to Chelsea aft a indebtedness spell astatine Everton successful 2023 and her elder world debut followed a twelvemonth later.

She has gone connected to people 5 goals successful 9 England appearances, including a 33-minute hat-trick astatine Wembley successful a 6-0 thrashing of Portugal successful May.

But pinch Arsenal's Alessia Russo firmly successful spot arsenic number 9 successful Sarina Wiegman's side, Beever-Jones has to hold patiently for her opportunities successful Switzerland.

She was overlooked successful nan 2-1 opening-game conclusion by France but came connected arsenic a substitute successful nan 2nd half of England's important 4-0 triumph complete nan Netherlands connected Wednesday.

"I cognize my strengths and I person done it for 2 years coming disconnected nan chair for Chelsea and hopefully making an impact," said Beever-Jones.

"Sarina is good alert of that and I respected nan determination [not to play maine against France]. She knows I'll beryllium fresh nary matter what, whenever nan clip comes."

Beever-Jones has a knack for producing large moments.

She scored 9 goals successful 22 appearances for Chelsea this season, including a stoppage-time victor against Liverpool to nonstop them to nan Women's FA Cup final.

Against nan aforesaid force successful May, she scored successful nan 91st minute to guarantee nan Women's Super League champions vanished their 22-game run unbeaten.

Four of her first 5 goals for Chelsea came disconnected nan bench, including her debut astatine Stamford Bridge against, you guessed it, Liverpool successful 2023.

Her occurrence brings much unit but Beever-Jones has ever remained calm, putting it down to "maturity" and independency since moving distant from home.

"I learned astir assembly taxation and each that worldly that you ne'er really deliberation about. I conscionable deliberation I've grown up and I'm rather mature for my age," she said.

"That reflects connected nan transportation now. I'm capable to consciousness comfortable, look astir and spot world-class players.

"I consciousness highly privileged to study disconnected them each time and arsenic show my ain characteristic that I bring to nan team."

Beever-Jones is intelligibly chomping astatine nan spot to make her people successful Switzerland - and will beryllium hoping for much minutes successful Sunday's last group crippled against Wales (20:00 BST kick-off), wherever a triumph would corroborate defending champions England's spot successful nan quarter-finals.

But it is still a learning curve to beryllium progressive successful a awesome tournament.

"I was unfortunate successful nan consciousness that erstwhile I was increasing up, we had Covid and we missed retired connected nan Under-17s Euros and World Cups," she added.

"I've ne'er really knowledgeable tourney shot and being distant from family. It's conscionable learning to woody pinch nan ups and downs and setbacks.

"It was a crazy clip successful nan world [during Covid]. That's why I deliberation it makes it a spot much typical this clip round.

"It is my first due tourney - and it's astatine nan highest level. It's precisely wherever I want to be."