Kelly: Is anyone turning? This is not a straight linear journey. Your trip has been different for most footballers – from the heford, plow, then in the Premier League, by winning with an European Trophy and England. What is a moment that you can indicate that you think, in fact, it has all changed?
Jarod: Probably when I had rejected Cardiff before going to the Hearford, as I went on a trial for cardif for about six weeks and at that time I thought, ‘My local team Hearford got nothing for me.’ I have gone to Cardiff, I felt that I have really done good for six weeks and they have said that there is no one. So I was like this, ‘This is now … it is not going to happen.’ But then I think I was more appreciated by rejection from Cardiff and then Hearford and then starting back. Finally I was just enjoying playing football because I didn’t know what was going to happen. I did not know if it was just going to end and I was playing in Hearford and I thought, ‘It could not be better than that.’ I was happy with him. Then some things happened. I went to the plow at the age of 17, which was a big lifestyle difference. At a distance of three and a half hours from the house was completely frightening, but those things have helped me away from the pitch and then it also helps you on the pitch. But I think if you can mature as a person from the pitch, it helps you. Therefore, some things have happened, but I would say that Cardiff Rejection … I thought, ‘This was the end, so when I could, appreciate me to play.’
Kelly: You have already played some huge matches in your career. Which match, if you can give relief to one, will you play again?
Jarod: I think one who sticks with me was probably the Europea Conference League final. I had never joined any kind of final before. Come out, a few hours earlier in the stadium, go out to see the pitch, as you do, and it was packed. The feeling of the final whistle ringing and you are on the pitch … I have to play a again on YouTube that I and my father saw the second day of the game … After the end of the game I think the camera went to me and had the biggest smile on my face, fell on my knees, it fell on the same way, it was exactly what it means to us. I think it was a great day.
Kelly: Did you say that you and your father were recently watching the whole game back?
Jarod: Yes.
Kelly: This shows you how much it means.
Jarod: Yes, he always sees it. He is in rowing and canoeing, so he has found a rowing machine and he will send me a picture of an hour and 29 minutes and it’s just the whole game. I have never seen it before. You knew how it was going, but I was still a little nervous and I was thinking, ‘I know how the game goes, I am so nervous?’ I can’t really remember the game completely. Now it has been two years, so there was a strange feeling to see it in a different way from two years but I loved to see it.
Kelly: Let’s talk a little more about Jarod Boven person. You have already mentioned your father many times before, so let’s start more families there and what was it in Bowen’s house. Take me in a specific day.
Jarod: Most people have possibly for uniform upbringing. I have a younger brother and sister, so I was the eldest child. He always said that I was a favorite child because I was of birth before – it’s still a thing. But I loved playing football. A very sporty family. My father also played rugby and football. My mother worked in school that we have grown up. She still works there and it was really like our life.
Kelly: If your mother is in school then you should be a poster boy. You should be like a local hero.
Jarod: As I said, my mother, when she comes down, she brings this full box of things. She says “someone asked me what …” and she is the best woman in the world, so she will never say to anyone, so she comes down with this box of goods and I will sign it for everyone. It can be a ruffle or something like that. I have grown up in that area, yet everyone knows everyone in that area, has gone to that school, so I want my things for them and at the same time I feel that it matters a lot to me that people want to put me on the walls and want my signature.
Kelly: I want to know a little more about your father. He was a former-footballer, and he played a semi-foot. Is that right?
Jarod: He played for conference-tier One Green, Warsster … for those types of teams … Hearford for a few years.
Kelly: Is it true that you still follow his pre-seasons training routine that he does with you?
Jarod: Yes, okay … This summer was the first time where I was not invited to England, so I had a period of five/six weeks. I went home for three weeks, I think it was, and we were training on the famous potato fields every day, so I had a complete pre-season with them. In this season, my brother was doing it with me, my sister was doing it with me, even Dani [Jarrod’s wife] Some time came out and did it.
Kelly: Was she doing this?
Jarod: Yes, if you saw it, you must have thought, ‘What is the hell with this group of people?’ My father was a instructor, so to speak. It was like his boot camp, we called it, but it was just we were walking around this potato field and I thought, ‘If someone sees us, they are going to think what it is? What is this group of four people doing? ‘But we did this and this is something that I have done in my career, so I wanted to do it, and we did it.
Kelly: Does he fall in the West Ham Games? Does he travel?
Jarod: As much as he can, yes.
Kelly: It is far away.
Jarod: Yes, it’s far away, but he tries to come to many sports. He is already thinking about Sunderland game. He is going to run his camper van.
Kelly: I am glad that you have brought the tourist van up because I wanted to talk to you about that. She went into a tourist van euro, no?
Jarod: Yes, the tourist van went into the euro! He was that, my brother, my two best companions. They all went to one to run it. My two best companions were terrible to run it! I think he wrote almost The Campor Wan of, driving differently.
