Crowdfunding your way to a World Cup final - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Playing in front of a record 80,000 fans at Twickenham, captaining your country in a World Cup final and winning World Rugby’s Player of the Year… all in a day's work for Sophie De Goede.
All that despite returning from a huge ACL injury just one month before the World Cup, Canada crowdfunding to get there, and training against teammates' partners to make up the numbers. Sophie joins Gabby and Mark to talk about where women's rugby goes next.
Plus we look back at the best bits from The Sports Agents this week - was it right for Tottenham to sub their goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky after a 17-minute nightmare? And how can Welsh rugby build back to its former glory?
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| 0:32.0 | This is a global player original podcast. It takes some athlete to win world Player of the Year when your team loses the World Cup final |
| 0:40.8 | and you've just come back from an ACL injury. |
| 0:43.7 | But that's exactly what Canada's Sophie de Goody did last year. |
| 0:47.0 | The one prize the England women's rugby team didn't win. |
| 0:50.3 | It's even more impressive considering Canada crowdfunded their way to the World Cup final, |
| 0:54.7 | even bringing in players' partners to train with when numbers were dwindling due to injury. |
| 1:00.0 | After that World Cup record crowd at Twickenham, has the Saracens number eight seen the sport push on |
| 1:05.4 | and is she building a career to lead on from her family dynasty. |
| 1:09.6 | Welcome to the sports agents. |
| 1:19.1 | The Sports Agents. |
| 1:20.5 | With Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman. |
| 1:25.2 | Sophie, thanks so much for coming into the sports agents. |
| 1:27.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:28.7 | It feels to me just like two minutes since we were on that pitch, you know, post-match, |
| 1:36.1 | celebrating with England. |
| 1:37.7 | And of course, you know, I hate to say it, but sometimes you forget about the losers. |
| 1:44.0 | And obviously Canada went into that game flawless and looking like they were going to be tough, tough opposition for England that day. |
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