It is the title won in 2022 that immortalised these players, but winning Euro 2025 would be an even greater achievement. That is not only because of the way the women’s game has been elevated and the standards have been raised in the intervening years.
Individually too, they have overcome huge challenges. Leah Williamson and Beth Mead both missed the last World Cup in Australia and New Zealand with ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments. Mead and Ella Toone have starred while navigating the loss of a parent in their 20s.
All have found new ways to inspire the nation. Lucy Bronze has opened up about her autism diagnosis, while Jess Carter has battled online racism. Hannah Hampton has spoken of her struggles at feeling fans did not want her in goal after Mary Earps’ shock retirement. Nobody is saying that now.
England’s Euro 2022 triumph transformed women’s football across the country (Photo: AFP/Getty)Of the team that won Euro 2022, Jill Scott, Ellen White, and Rachel Daly have also bowed out of international football. Seven of the current squad had never been to a major tournament before this summer.
This is the Dutch head coach’s fifth final in a row, an astonishing record dating back to her time with the Netherlands. She has always leaned on assistant Arjan Veurink but only has one more game with him at her side before he leaves to take over their native team.
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“Yeaaaah,” she laughs. “You know, sometimes when people say about ‘the girls’ I think, are they meaning my daughters, or are they meaning my team? So that’s tricky, I’m kind of a caring person so maybe that’s the part.
The current Lionesses are keen not to compare Sunday to their previous finals – one won against Germany, one lost to Spain in the World Cup.
Williamson knows what it is to lift trophies for club and country, but to do it like this, away from home, away from family and friends having had a target on their backs as champions, would be even more special.
Ninety more minutes with records on the line. The Lionesses are already national treasures but they are on the cusp of doing something so miraculous no England side may ever surpass them.
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