As many of the British athletes are becoming competitive in all Olympic disciplines, Welsh Captain and record-maker Lewis Prosser took the time to speak on a “huge milestone” for himself and his team as Wales qualified for the Hockey World Cup.
“Yeah it was unbelievable, I was just saying to the guys I am not sure what to do with myself, we were hugging each other but I just do not know what to do! You can’t really describe the feeling it just all comes down to those pressure situations”.
After becoming Wales’ most capped Welshman earlier in the week, to qualify for the world cup was the next thing on Prossers mind, but those final few minutes were nothing short of tense.
“Yeah, it was good! Well, we played our game probably 60-70% of the match, but towards the end we were under the cosh. We knew we had to stick together, we’ve held out before so we knew the details we had to do defensively to actually tuck in and manage their dangerous players”.
“Shuttles with Toby making those saves was incredible and some of the boys stepping up to finish the job off was just an incredible job”.
Despite qualifying after their game against Ireland, Wales still had a game the day after to decide the tournament against top seeds France. An idea that was almost beyond imagination come the start of the week.
“As I have said before we have had some good games against France, they are a really tough side but it usually is very competitive when we play them. We are now really looking forward to it”.
“We will go into the game to try and win the game. Obviously we are always going to try to do that, and we want to come away having moved up the rankings and performing the best that we possibly can”.
After becoming Wales’ most capped mens player, a feat his Father achieved himself, leading his Nation to a World Cup qualification seemed to be a perfect week. Before they went and beat top seeds France, and made it the biggest week of his life.
Sports Insider by Gerren Scapens 