{"id":1382,"date":"2025-06-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/sywf\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:17:05","slug":"one-of-their-own-rotherham-uniteds-midfield-star-on-taking-the-club-as-far-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/sywf\/2025\/06\/05\/one-of-their-own-rotherham-uniteds-midfield-star-on-taking-the-club-as-far-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"One of their own: Rotherham United’s midfield star on taking the club as far as possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rotherham United’s midfield maestro Sidni Simmons is a lifelong Millers fan and spoke to SYWF about her aims of taking the club through the divisions, her footballing journey, and the challenges along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since joining Rotherham<\/a> three years ago, she’s won the League Plate, She Believes Trophy, made the League Cup final and was named the managers Player of the Year in 2023\/24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how did she come to play for her childhood side? Sidni spoke about her early journey within the game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI first started playing around the age of three with my brothers and cousins, and I went to my first Rotherham match around that time as well.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI joined my first club when I was five or six, but I was playing in a boys team because there weren’t many girls teams around back then.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEventually when I was nine, I signed for the Sheffield United Centre of Excellence which was the first all girls team I played in.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was there for about a year before moving to the Doncaster Rovers Belles <\/a>ETC. I started playing a couple of years above my age, and I stayed there for about eight years.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sidni made it all the way from the under 12’s to the first team at Doncaster Rovers Belles, however joined Rotherham two and a half years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n