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Welsh Football 2024 review: What were the standout moments during the calendar year?
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12/12/2024
As we approach 2025, we’re looking back on the calendar year as to which moments have stood out for the nation’s football side and leave them in good stead ahead of the New Year.
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Well, Charles, looking at the Welsh football set-up once again, 2024 as a calendar year
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is coming to a close, as we know, and so it's time that we have a look back at what Wales
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have achieved this year. Of course, had a good few international breaks, a new manager
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as well, Craig Bellamy coming in. Formerly, he was assistant manager at Burnley under
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Vincent Company, but then of course, Company left, he went to Bayern Munich, and now you've
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got Bellamy, former Welsh striker himself, he's now taking the reins at the national
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team. And so, what has he managed to achieve this year, and what have the players managed
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to achieve, and is the future bright for Welsh football? Because of course, they've had some
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great success in recent times under the likes of Chris Coleman, Robert Page, but then it's
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also fallen off a bit of a cliff after that as well, and so Bellamy's sort of been tasked
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with rebuilding as well. So, yeah, where are we at with Welsh football, but what has been
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the highlights for this calendar year of 2024?
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Yeah, obviously, you mentioned it's been a bit of a strange one with the managerial
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change and the shift, and I think the short answer is probably Craig Bellamy's appointment.
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I mean, an amazing sort of turnaround he's completed, going unbeaten in his games there,
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and there's no Welsh fan or no-one involved with Welsh football now who isn't really,
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really looking forward to 2025 and what they can achieve. And then obviously, you have
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the World Cup in 2026, and they're going to look to really get there. I mean, the top
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of the group in qualification at the moment, you know, in the Nations League as well, so
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fantastic for them to see that. And yeah, I mean, if you look back as far as the end
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of 2023, obviously came across that incredibly disappointing World Cup campaign, but then
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they actually took four points from Croatia, who were one of the, you know, the world's
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best at the time. A massive win at home was incredible back end of 2023, and I think they
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went into this year sort of thinking, OK, let's give Rob Page another go, let's try
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and back him and get it. But then, you know, losses to Turkey, Armenia in there, Slovakia
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4-0 away from home, drawing with Gibraltar in games that were massive at the time for
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qualification to the Euros, so really unfortunate. But, you know, they did have some good moments
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under him, but as you say, I think that the transition was so important. Craig Bellamy
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came in and he straightaway got to business. His first press conference was incredibly,
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you know, stern to the point that this is why I'm here, this is what we're going
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to try and achieve, and our standards are going to remain so high. So, yeah, I mean,
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to cap off the unbeaten run, 4-1 at home against Iceland, I mean, it's not a massively tough
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opponent, but it's really important that you do get these wins, and I think that the
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home crowd is also coming back massively for Wales as well. So, really excited for 2025
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if you are a Welsh football fan.
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