Kenni Thompson has appeared alongside Premier League star Justin Kluivert in a podcast about their experiences playing for Bournemouth.

Bermudian Thompson, who plays for Bournemouth’s women’s team, this week shared a studio with Kluivert, who has scored 12 goals, including two hat-tricks, in 25 games for the men’s team this season.

In the podcast the pair talk about their respective team’s unbeaten runs, moving away from home at a young age and their experience of life in Bournemouth, a seaside town on the South Coast in England.

Thompson, who is the first international to play for Bournemouth’s women’s team, was asked about her experience of moving countries.

“I left Bermuda, my home country at the age of 11 and I am now 24 so I’m used to moving around,” Thompson told Bournemouth University.

“It gets easier each time but there are still little things and being away from family is always difficult. But Bournemouth was really easy for me to settle into, we’ve got a lot of people around the club that helped me to find a flat and be able to adjust.

“Everyone talks about the beach in Bournemouth and it’s not as good as the ones I have in Bermuda, but it’s big for me to be able to get down to the beach and have a little reminder of home. That’s amazing to have.”

Thompson was also asked to speak about the relationship with her father, former national coach Kenny Thompson, and the influence he has played in her life.

“It’s been difficult as I haven’t lived with my dad since leaving the country and I was really young, so we really haven’t spent as much time together as we’d like,” Thompson said.

“But over the years the little time you do have you make it count. With him being a football guy as well, that’s usually what the talking points are. When I was home over Christmas, I was training with him instead of by myself, which is something that makes it a little easier. But I know I’ve always got the support of my family.”

While Kluivert is able to concentrate on his sole job of putting the ball in the back of the net for Bournemouth, Thompson says she works as part of the club’s outreach team, which involves being active in the local community.

“That is really rewarding for me,” Thompson said.

“My parents both being teachers and coaches, I think that’s rubbed off on me and I like to help out in the community, particularly with young kids and helping them in a football capacity with coaching.

“I do a bit with the soccer schools and that’s great to get a week, sometimes two weeks, to work with kids and help them get that love for football that I had when I was their age. It is one of the most rewarding things in my life.”

Bournemouth missed out on promotion to the third tier of women’s football last season despite finishing the campaign unbeaten with 19 wins and three draws, and Thompson was asked about this season, in which the side have won their first ten matches.

“Everyone is really happy and obviously our aim this season is to get promoted,” Thompson said.

“We know from last season that the way to do that is to win every game. It’s been difficult with a few games being called off in that we have not been able to get into a rhythm that we’d like to by playing week in and week out.

“It was heartbreaking for all of us not to go up after not losing a game all season and missing out on the final day.

“We had just three draws and in any other year that would be enough to get you promoted, but it is not just the heartbreak that is driving us, it is us realising that we need to be at 100 per cent in what we do to achieve, which means we have to keep winning.”