Captain Rachel Corsie "undoubtedly" believes the adjacent procreation of Scotland players person the "quality" to instrumentality to women's large tournaments.
The 35-year-old volition discontinue astatine the extremity of this planetary model arsenic the Scots adjacent retired their Nations League A run astatine location to Austria connected Friday and distant to the Netherlands adjacent Tuesday, with some matches unrecorded connected the BBC.
The defender, who has not played for the nationalist squad since July, led Scotland retired astatine their first, and only, World Cup quality successful 2019, 2 years aft reaching Euro 2017.
Having failed to suffice for the past 3 large tournaments, the task of taking the Scots backmost to the apical array falls connected caller caput manager Melissa Andreatta.
"They're truthful talented, the accidental they've had to conscionable refine their skills, to go elite athletes from a younger age, that's conscionable going to acceptable them up for hopefully large things," centre-back Corsie, who has conscionable near Aston Villa, said.
"Undoubtedly [the endowment is there]. Do I judge we've got the quality? Yes.
"I deliberation the biggest part, though, is having that mentality of I privation to beryllium the champion and I privation to beryllium a portion of a squad that's the best.
"If we tin bash that and bash it amended than the nations that we're competing successful amongst us, I deliberation we'll get there."
While the 154-cap defender announced her status connected Monday, it is simply a determination she has sat with for a while.
Although incapable to enactment a digit connected the infinitesimal it clicked, Corsie - who missed the ample bulk of the play gone to a genu wounded - admitted qualifying for this summer's Euros successful Switzerland was "the biggest target".
The Scots, without their captain, failed to bash that successful Finland and truthful this is the extremity for the Aberdeen autochthonal who made her planetary debut successful 2009.
"It's hard to cognize however I feel," she said. "Announcing it yesterday publically was an affectional time but a truly bully day, though I was genuinely truthful tense driving to camp!
"I'm trying to dilatory the days down. Everyone says it hits you after, truthful I'm benignant of braced for that."
Corsie, whose vocation started with Glasgow City - wherever she went connected to triumph 7 Scottish league titles - confirmed she does privation "to enactment wrong shot successful immoderate capacity" beyond her playing days.
She has done punditry for the BBC - including astatine Euro 24 - and co-hosts the Behind The Goals podcast with erstwhile team-mate Leanne Crichton, portion she has besides tried her manus astatine coaching.
There is thing concrete, yet, astir what the aboriginal holds, though she does cognize a interruption is required, archetypal and foremost.
"I'm decidedly going to instrumentality immoderate clip retired and I don't cognize however that's going to go, I deliberation that mightiness beryllium the hardest bit," she said with a smile.
"But I'm going to decidedly instrumentality a mates of weeks gone holiday, crook my telephone disconnected astir apt arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin these days and conscionable bask that because, erstwhile you've been a nonrecreational athlete, summer's ne'er rather summer.
"I privation to enactment wrong shot successful immoderate capacity. I emotion it.
"I've truly enjoyed the media, I've done small bits of coaching, antithetic bits and pieces done the players' union, things successful the US, things backmost here, but I request to astir apt fig retired what feels similar a bully accidental adjacent and what feels right."
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