Jess Carter says she was “too scared to play” on the eve of the UEFA Women’s Euros final against Spain, fearing both football criticism and racial abuse if she made a mistake. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Serena spoke to me before on the build-up to the Spain game and said that she was wanting to play me
00:04and kind of spoke to me about it and at the time I didn't say anything to her but in my head I just thought,
00:09you sure? The night before the game I just remember feeling really, I was like scared, I was scared for the Spain game.
00:15I was, and that's the first time I've ever been like scared to, scared to play and I think it was a mixture of
00:21it was such a big game and I was aware that my performances hadn't been that great and how was I going to try and turn that around for such a huge game.
00:28But then on top of that scared of whatever abuse might come with it, whether it's football-based because people weren't happy that I was playing,
00:36which is obviously never nice but again people are entitled to their opinion,
00:40or whether it was going to be the racial abuse that was going to come with it.
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