Sportshour

Club America defender Janelly Farias tells us how taking a stand on social issues has led to people in her home country likening her to USA star Megan Rapinoe. The comparisons were intended as an insult but Farias takes them as a compliment and the two women have exchanged messages on social media this week. Farias – who is LGBTQ+ - also tells us her family didn’t want her to be a footballer and that they rejected her when she got her first girlfriend. They’ve since reunited and she’s targeting playing for Mexico at the 2023 World Cup.Anna Rutherford joins us to reflect on smashing the record for running the two hundred and twelve mile Southern Upland Way in Scotland. She completed the run in sixty two hours and thirty four minutes to break the previous record by seventeen hours.Iddrisu Ismael – who could be the biggest Tranmere Rovers fan in Ghana – tells us about supporting a club in the fourth division of English football and how it would be a dream to see a game at Prenton Park. Fellow Rovers fan – Richar