The Lionesses have set their sights on winning the World Cup next August after securing England’s first major trophy since 1966
Shortly after she had pranced across the stage at a packed Trafalgar Square to Sweet Caroline she said: “Looking at this medal makes you so much hungrier for more.
“Anybody that knows me knows I’m like that,” the full-back said. “The Euros is fantastic, especially in my home country, but there is a little star missing from our crest at the minute on the England shirt. That’s definitely a mission of ours.” England’s captain, Leah Williamson, said she was flattered by comparisons to the 1966 captain, Bobby Moore. “He’s a legend isn’t he,” she said with a large exhale of breath. “I didn’t know that we were the same age at the point we had done this. He’s got the World Cup. He’s one up on me, right?”Photograph: Lynne Cameron/The FA/Getty Images
“She is incredible,” he said. “She was our No 1 target when we were going out to look for a manager and she was just brilliant all through that process. Not in our wildest dreams did we imagine this success so soon. We thought that this tournament might be too early. We weren’t sure we’d win this one – we were hoping we would win one in the future.”
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