Martha Thomas de Scotia dreams of the ‘to no one’ trip to the important finals

Thomas spent most of his childhood growing in southern Florida, daughter of a Scottish mother and an English father, but it was in France when she began to think that she could have a career in football.

“I saw the opportunity to play as they paid him, he simply intensified from there and I loved it,” he said. “I thought, I can do this to make a living!

“I started playing and began to enjoy really and that was when West Ham picked me up. Going to one of England’s best leagues since division 2 in France was a great jump, but it was one that was really excited.”

International football thoughts were still far away.

“I had really low expectations for me and just wanted to establish myself,” he admitted. ” I was a nobody in a way.

“I didn’t play for a national team, I came from America. Nobody really knew who it was. He just wanted to enjoy and see where he caught me.”

He trained her in Chief of Scotland, Shelley Kerr.

“I played for the US sub-23 team. Uu., But when Shelley called me, I had lost that 2019 World Cup window,”

“I think I was in the first camp immediately after that World Cup and, after that, it wasn’t a look back and I didn’t seem a decision to make.”

Thomas scored twice in his debut in a 3-0 victory over Ukraine in March 2020 and has scored 21 goals in 42 appearances for Scotland.

He moved from West Ham to Manchester United and then Tottenham Hotspur, collecting Copa FA medals with the last two.

However, qualifying for the finals of an important tournament with Scotland would be a maximum race.

” I would be 29 or 30 years old at that time and that would be the pinnacle of my career if we could get there, and it is definitely what I hope this team can achieve and fight, “he said.

A successful campaign of the Nations League would help that ambition and the team led by the interim coach Michael Mcardle already face it after losing their first game in Austria, before being host of the Netherlands on Tuesday.

“It helps you have a better opportunity to qualify if you stay in League A in the first positions, it only makes this route even better for the qualification,” Thomas added.

“It’s what we want. We want to play these best teams and show ourselves.”