Kaylin Swart: from World Cup to day-job and long bus journeys on game day
The Guardian Only three weeks after Kaylin Swart and her national teammates flew from Wellington to Sydney, as the first South African senior side to compete in the knockout rounds of a World Cup, she was on a bus, traveling four and a half hours north of Johannesburg to Limpopo, to play a league match on the same day as the drive.
Its wild, she tells the Guardian. I tell people I am a full-time worker and a part-time footballer. A lot of us have to take unpaid leave to play matches. But come game day you would never say we are not full-time players.
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Like many of her international teammates Swart maintains a day job hers is as a sports coach and administration assistant at a school and does most of her training in the evenings, juggling match-day commitments with real life. Sometimes it can become too much to handle and 18 months ago she considered quitting the game completely. I had a dip in form and, at that moment, I wanted to give up football and continue with my job. Then I thought if I could just find the love for the game, find my passion again and have fun with it, who knows what could happen?
