Man City star Kerstin Casparij on her sparkling form, social media, and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re joined by the best-performing full-back in the WSL right now and one of our favourite personalities in the league: it’s Kerstin Casparij!
Chloe and Rachel sit down with Kerstin to discuss her incredible year, both on and off the pitch. Kerstin explains why she’s feeling so happy in a Man City shirt right now and reveals the inspiration for her post-match puns on social media. She also opens up about her continuing advocacy for the trans community, her own sexuality, and why becoming a patron for the LGBT Foundation was so important to her.
Join us for one of the most heartwarming and eye-opening interviews we’ve ever done!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Upfront. I'm Chloe Morgan. And I'm Rachel Sullivan. Today we are joined by one of the best players in the WSL this season. Kirsten Kaspirite has been a huge part of Mancissie's incredible start, rock solid at the back and an absolute menace going forwards. Casparate is enjoying her best start to a season since she moved from FC20 back in 2022. |
| 0:24.6 | She's also made a name for herself off the pitch as an inspiring voice for the LGBTQ plus community. |
| 0:29.6 | She is a passionate advocate for trans rights and earlier this year became a patron for the LGBT Foundation. |
| 0:35.8 | So today, we're chatting to Kirsten all about her sensational form wearing the captain's armband for the LGBT Foundation. So today, we're chatting to Kirsten all about her sensational form wearing the captain's |
| 0:40.6 | armband for the very first time and how she's been using her platform on social media for good. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to the podcasting. |
| 0:51.6 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:54.0 | Before we get stuck into having this great conversation, can we please talk about the artwork behind you? |
| 0:58.5 | So these are both David Triglis and I saw this one which says you got beaten by a crab. |
| 1:05.9 | Ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 1:07.1 | One of our friends places and I set the roof we get our house, I need to have that. |
| 1:13.9 | But just this in the world doesn't look nice, so I needed a second one. |
| 1:17.7 | Of course. |
| 1:18.3 | I love a bit of swearing here and now and again. |
| 1:21.3 | And last week, Ruth's nan, very lovely lady, came round, but she is a little bit religious, so we had to |
| 1:29.4 | take it down for her sake because she didn't want to upset her. But yeah, now, these are both |
| 1:33.9 | David Trigglies. We love David Trigley, so yeah. That is absolutely lovely. And I think the |
| 1:39.4 | shares and the sale price of David Trigley is now going to go up substantially since you gave |
| 1:43.6 | him that. I need commission. 100% will set up that brand deal for you. Yeah, obviously I'm really happy |
| 1:49.5 | that we're getting to talk to you off the back of like quite a, quite a nice space that Man City |
| 1:53.4 | are currently sitting in. What's it like? What's the view from the top like, mate? |
| 1:58.3 | Yeah. It's a bit chilly up here. No mean it's great obviously um it's it's what we all |
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