Female walking footballers say sport is helping them through the menopause
Mandy Gornicki thought her football days were behind her.
The ex-Wales women captain hung up her boots aged 49, but a chance encounter in a café saw her secure another cap for her country – this time in the women’s walking football team.
Only after work with university students evaluating the health impacts of sport at her club in Merthyr Tydfil did she come to appreciate the benefits it brings.
“It’s changed my life. My husband says ‘you come back from [walking] football and you’re alive’.”
She said it was only after a few months in the side that she looked at her team and thought: “Do you know what? We are all either going through, been through or are gonna go through that big thing which is called the menopause.”
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