{"id":12827,"date":"2026-01-23T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/?p=12827"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:19:42","slug":"breaking-wrexham-afc-sign-defender-mikayla-wildgoose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/breaking-wrexham-afc-sign-defender-mikayla-wildgoose\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham AFC sign defender Mikayla Wildgoose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G_XTrzWWoAAZAdx-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G_XTrzWWoAAZAdx-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G_XTrzWWoAAZAdx-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G_XTrzWWoAAZAdx-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G_XTrzWWoAAZAdx.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genero Adran Premier side Wrexham AFC have completed the signing of Derby County central defender Mikayla Wildgoose.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former Northern Ireland youth international, Wildgoose came through the ranks at Birmingham City, and also had a dual-registration spell at Loughborough Lightning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She joined Burnley in 2023, where she worked under current Wrexham AFC coach Rebecca Sawiuk, before moving to Derby in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking upon her arrival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrexhamafc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/january\/23\/signed---mikayla-wildgoose-\/\">she said to Wrexham&#8217;s social media accounts: <\/a><em>\u201cI\u2019m excited to be here and looking forward to getting started with the girls.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch Mikayla&#39;s first interview as a Wrexham player now \ud83d\udc47<br><br>\ud83d\udd34\u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WxmAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WxmAFC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Wrexham AFC Women (@WrexhamAFCWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrexhamAFCWomen\/status\/2014749972541956583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThere\u2019s a real positive drive with where this Club wants to go &#8211; they want to be at the top of the league and that\u2019s something that I wanted to join in on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defender has signed a deal with Wrexham until the end of the 2025\/26 campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wildgoose could make her Wrexham AFC debut this Sunday, 25th January, when The Red Dragons host Briton Ferry Llansawel at The Rock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genero Adran Premier side Wrexham AFC have completed the signing of Derby County central defender Mikayla Wildgoose. A former Northern Ireland youth international, Wildgoose came through the ranks at Birmingham City, and also had a dual-registration spell at Loughborough Lightning. She joined Burnley in 2023, where she worked under current Wrexham AFC coach Rebecca Sawiuk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,99,138],"tags":[139,211,150],"class_list":["post-12827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","category-the-adran-leagues-show-extra","tag-genero-adran-premier","tag-mikayla-wildgoose","tag-wrexham-afc"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G_W6se9WUAAi2Ba-e1769189868227.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12992,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions\/12992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymrusport.cymru\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}