Weir On World Cup Dreams, Coaching Kids In Fife & Empire Biscuits

In September 2023, Weir ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament during a 1-1 tie pinch Belgium.

She missed a twelvemonth of action but has gone connected to go Real Madrid's starring all-time goalscorer and has now amassed 116 caps for her country, taking complete nan captaincy successful February.

Scotland person not been astatine a awesome tourney since 2019 and Weir is hopeless to extremity that absence astatine nan adjacent version of nan World Cup successful Brazil adjacent year.

"It's what I dreamed of arsenic a kid, conscionable to play for Scotland," she says. And past to person nan honour and nan privilege of starring nan squad successful this campaign, it's a large responsibility, thing I'm very proud of.

"I want thing much this twelvemonth than to suffice for that World Cup.

"The disappointment of nan past mates of campaigns, it's only a bigger driver for me, and not conscionable me, but different players successful nan squad.

"There's galore knowledgeable players that person been done nan process before, but I deliberation what's bully is we person a batch of caller faces, young, talented, quiet players that besides want to beryllium astatine that World Cup."

Another constituent to Weir's trips location is activity pinch nan Pars Foundation, engaging and encouraging nan adjacent procreation of footballers from Fife.

"It started pinch maine coming backmost and going to coaching sessions, chiefly for nan girls' group up and it's conscionable developed from location and I became an charismatic ambassador," she explains.

"It's specified a cool emotion because it wasn't for illustration that erstwhile I was their age.

"I've been truthful fortunate successful my profession and it each started astatine Pitreavie playing fields and coming to watch nan guys astatine East End Park.

"Those memories are truthful vivid successful my mind. To travel backmost and spot different girls benignant of unrecorded that arsenic good is truthful cool.

"This [latest] programme is for girls aged 13 to 14. And fundamentally it's each astir processing transferable activity skills that they tin return into school, into sport, immoderate it is they're passionate about. Learning ways to communicate, trying to create confidence, resilience."

Caroline Weir was talking to BBC Radio Scotland's Saturday Show.