The Football Interview: Jarrod Bowen in his own words

Kelly: Is there a turning point? It was not a simple linear journey. Your journey was different from most footballers – Hereford, Hull, then to the Premier League, with a European Cup and England. Actually, is there a moment when you think everything is where it changes?

Jarrod: Probably before I was rejected from Cardiff before I went to Hereford, I started to be tried for Cardiff for about six weeks, and then I thought ‘my local team has nothing to have this way’. I went to Cardiff, ‘I really did well for six weeks and they said no’ he thought. I said, ‘That’s when it will not.’

But then I made me more appreciated from Cardiff and then from Hereford, and then starting again. I finally enjoyed playing football because I didn’t know what would happen. I just didn’t know if it was going to end, and I was playing in Hereford, and I thought ‘it can’t be better than that.’ I was satisfied with this. Then a few things happened.

I moved to Hull at the age of 17 with a big lifestyle difference. Three and a half hours away from the house was absolutely terrible, but these things helped me from the field and then helped you on the field. But I think if you can mature as a person from the field, it will help you.

I mean, a few things happened, but I can say that Cardiff had a rejection …

Kelly: You’ve already played in some big matches in your career. Which match, if you can live again, will you play again?

Jarrod: I think someone who stuck with me the most was probably the Europa Conference League final. I’ve never been in the final before. He goes out, going to the stadium a few hours ago, going to look at the field like you and was full.

You are the feeling of the last whistle and the field … There is a repetition on youtube that I and my father watched the whole game the last day … After the game ended, I went to me and went to the biggest smile on my face, this feeling, what it meant to us as a group. I think that was a great day.

Kelly: Did you and your father have been watching the whole game lately?

Jarrod: Yes.

Kelly: This shows you what this means.

Jarrod: Yes, it always watches. It enters the shovel and the canoe, so you have a rowing machine and it will send me a 29 -minute picture for an hour and it’s just the whole game. I’ve never seen it before. You knew how to go, but I was still watching a little tense and ‘I know how the game went, why am I so nervous?’ I can’t remember the game completely. Two years have passed, so it was a strange feeling to watch in a different way two years later, but I liked watching.

Kelly: Let’s talk a little more about the person Jarrod Bowen. You’ve already mentioned your father many times, so let’s start from there and the family and what happened at the growing Bowen house. Take me to a typical day.

Jarrod: Probably a raising similar to what most people have. I have a little brother, so I was the oldest kid. They always said I was a favorite child because I was first born – this is still something. But I liked to play football. A very sporty family. My father also played ragbi and football. My mother worked at the school where we grew up. He still works there, and it was really our life.

Kelly: If your mother is at school, you should have a poster child. You must be like a local hero.

Jarrod: Like I said, my mother brings all these boxes when she goes down. “Someone just …” he asked, and he asked the most beautiful woman in the world, so he will never say no to anyone, so he goes down with these boxes and I will sign it for everyone. It can be for a lottery or something like this. I grew up in that area, I still know everyone in that area, I went to that school, so I think they put me on the walls and ask for my signature to ask for my belongings.

Kelly: I want to learn more about your father. He was a former football and played semi -professional. Is that true?

Jarrod: Forest Green at the conference level, played for Worcester … Such teams … Hereford for several years.

Kelly: Is it right to follow the pre -season education routine with you?

Jarrod: Yes, good … It was the first place I was not called to England this summer, so I had a five/six week period. I think I went home for three weeks and was training in famous potato fields every day, so there was a full season with him. My brother was doing with me this season, my sister was doing with me, even Dani [Jarrod’s wife] He came out several times and did it.

Kelly: Was he doing it too?

Jarrod: Yes, if you look at him, ‘What’s happening with this group of people?’ You would think. My father was a kind of training, so to speak. It was like his training camp, we called, but we were just running around this potato field and ‘If he saw us, would they think about what it was? What is this four -person group doing? ‘But we did it and something I did during this career, so I wanted to do it and did it.

Kelly: Does West come to raw games? Is he traveling?

Jarrod: As much as possible, yes.

Kelly: Very far.

Jarrod: Yeah, it’s too far, but he’s trying to come to a lot of games. Sunderland is already thinking of the game. The camper will continue the minibus.

Kelly: I’m glad you lifted the camper minibus because I wanted to talk to you about it. He went to Camper Van Euro, right?

Jarrod: Yes, the camper minibus went to Euro! This is my brother, my two best friends. They all kept driving him. The best two of my best friends sued him about driving! I think they almost wrote the camper minibus and drove on different sides.