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The Guardian // Sport // Football

Wood you believe it? The footballer who made Euro trophy cases on the Wirral

Friday 25th July 2025, 11:17AM

Yana Daniëls did not make Belgium’s squad but, as a carpenter, her contribution to the Euros appears at every gameOn the Wirral, to the west of Birkenhead and behind a hospital and a Toby Carvery, is Arrowe Park, a 250-acre country park. This is one of the many fields of play for Yana Daniëls, a footballer and a carpenter, and one of the more solitary and spacious.There is something to be said for the similarities between the art of carpentry and Daniëls’s sport, of the precision born of graft and execution, although crafted by hand rather than foot. But perhaps more to be said about the balance of life, control and chance. Continue reading...

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