Scotland captain Rachel Corsie plans to 'stay within football' after retirement
Scotland captain Rachel Corsie intends to stay "within football in some capacity" after announcing her retirement from playing this week.
The 35-year-old, who was won 154 caps since her international debut in 2009, revealed on Monday that she will hang up her boots following the Nations League games against Austria and the Netherlands on Friday and next Tuesday respectively.
Thereafter, Corsie plans to enjoy some downtime over the summer as she ponders what the future holds after a 19-year playing career.
"I'm definitely going to take some time out, and I don't know how that's going to go, I think that might be the hardest bit," she smiled, as she faced the media in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
"But I'm going to definitely take a couple of weeks gone holiday, turn my phone off probably as much as you can these days and just enjoy that because I think when you've been a professional athlete, summer's never quite summer.
"You always think, how many days before I need to go in the gym? Do I need to do a bike session? Should I go a run when I'm on holiday? So I'm going to try and go on holiday and do none of that.
"And then, I think for me, I want to stay within football in some capacity. I love it. I've done probably lots of little things over the course of my career. I've really enjoyed the media.
"I've done little bits of coaching, different bits and pieces through the players' union, things in the US, things back here but I need to probably figure out what feels like a good opportunity next and what feels right. A little break first and then we'll see."
Asked if she could envisage becoming a head coach, Corsie said: "I think if I do, that'll be quite a little bit down the line. I think you realise as a senior player, being a head coach, being a coach is really hard.
"I think a lot of people think if you play the game, you could just go into coaching, but there's so much more to it than I think people realise.
"If I was to want to do that, I would want to really give it my best shot and I know that that would take quite a lot of time. You need to build the right skills to be able to do that well."
Corsie announced her retirement at the end of a season when injury restricted her to just two appearances for Aston Villa. Having captained her country at the 2017 European Championship and the 2019 World Cup, the defender said it had felt "weird" since publicly announcing the end of a career in which she had "achieved a lot more than I thought was possible".
"(On Monday), announcing it publicly, was an emotional day, but a really nice day," she said. "I got so many messages, so just trying to work my way through them and just appreciate them, it was definitely a nice moment for me.
"I've known for a little longer, so there's a relief about being able to come out and say it publicly and just acknowledge that this is now it. It was quite hard, though, (on Monday). It made it feel real. For me, there's a lot of things that have come together in a nice way.
"I've had a hard year, but to finish being able to play on the pitch was the biggest thing for me."
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