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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Garry

Kenza Dali: ‘I will tell my story after the Euros. A lot of lies have been told’

Kenza Dali holds a France flag while in her San Diego Wave kit, but the midfielder will not be at Euro 2025.
Kenza Dali holds a France flag while in her San Diego Wave kit, but the midfielder will not be at Euro 2025. Photograph: Joe Scarnici/NWSL/Getty Images

‘I had hard times and this team really gave me back my love and motivation for football,” Kenza Dali says of San Diego Wave as she prepares to open up on a turbulent year.

Over the course of a refreshingly honest conversation, the midfielder reveals why she left Aston Villa to move to the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in January, details why she is enjoying working under Jonas Eidevall and discusses, for the first time, the grief that affected her participation in the Olympics. There is, however, one topic on which she is not quite ready to go into details yet.

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