Serial winner Sarina is the gold standard

SARINA WIEGMAN is celebrating a third European Championship win and a second with England - and the manager’s impact can be felt through the whole squad.

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The Dutch coach took the England job after winning Euro 2017 and reaching the 2019 World Cup final with her home country, but admitted before the 2025 final that she had fallen in love with her new adopted home.

The FA handed her a contract extension in 2024, keeping her in the dugout until after the 2027 World Cup. And that looks like a better piece of business with each passing day.

“She is bloody amazing,” match-winner Chloe Kelly said of the boss. “She is an incredible woman. What she has done for this country, we should all be so grateful for.

“What she has done for me individually, she gave me hope when I probably didn’t have any.

“She gave me an opportunity to represent my country again.

“I knew that I had to get game time, because representing England is never a given.