Female Football Focus: Candice Nellist (Connah’s Quay Nomads)
Former Tranmere Rovers and Rhyl striker Candice Nellist netted a hat-trick on her debut for new club Connah’s Quay Nomads on Sunday.
Here are a few things which make her tick….
Full Name
Candice Jessica Nellist
Date of Birth
10 November 2000
First football memory
Playing on Coronation Gardens with Rhyl boys
Football idol
Lucy Bronze
Position
Centre forward
Most memorable game played in
Scoring 10 goals for Prestatyn at under-10s
Biggest highlight of football career so far
Getting asked to play for Wales in Spain for the under-15s when I was 13
Strengths to your game
Fast and good at putting the ball through
Weaknesses
Tackling
Best team-mate played alongside
Lyndsey Smith (Tranmere Rovers)
Hardest opponentS faced
Stockport
Biggest influence in football
Alex Morgan
Best goal ever scored
From the halfway line at TNS for North Wales against South Wales
Favourite away ground
Cardiff
Personal football ambitions
To play in America
RANDOM QUESTIONS
Best country visited
America
Favourite chocolate
Cadbury’s Caramel
Best film seen this year
Spider-Man Homecoming
Current favourite song
2002 Anne-Marie
Favourite TV show
new FBI
TV show you dislike most
Siren – mum always watches it
Best quality as a person
Friendly
Worst fault
Moody
Best live show/concert seen
Little Mix
Favourite female footballer
Lucy Bronze
Tell us something about you we might not know
I’m currently doing level 3 mechanics