Wales have reached the play-off levels of qualification for a significant event for under the third time within the historical past of the ladies’s nationwide facet.
Their first try, in qualifying for the 2023 World Cup, led to agony.
Gemma Grainger’s group beat Bosnia-Herzegovina on the semi-final stage earlier than – regardless of taking an early lead – dropping out to a aim late in additional time of the ultimate in Switzerland.
Two years later, it was a wholly completely different story as Wales overcame Slovakia and the Republic of Eire to achieve Euro 2025, the primary ladies’s main event within the nation’s historical past.
Thanks partially to a prolonged harm listing, James is considered one of solely 5 gamers who started the decisive recreation in Dublin 22 months in the past who’re in rivalry to start out in opposition to Albania.
The 146-cap Seattle Reign midfielder was additionally a part of the facet left heartbroken by that late defeat in Zurich in October 2022.
“[They were] two very completely different emotions after each video games,” James stated.
“The sensation that we had out in Switzerland, going so shut in additional time and narrowly lacking out, it fuelled us for Dublin.
“There is a massive group of us that skilled that and at first of this camp we made certain the entire group was conscious of the way it feels to be on each ends of that.”
