England captain Leah Williamson believes that Sarina Wiegman changed the mindset of the squad and admits that winning the tournament has not sunk in yet. England beat Germany in extra time to win their first major trophy since the men won the 1966 World Cup. Williamson was at the heart of the defense and kept four clean sheets in the tournament.
“The more I think about it, the more I remember. At the time I remember just feeling very relieved because you say you want to do something and then you actually do it. I was just balling my eyes out, but I don’t remember much,” Leah Williamson said about Sarina Wiegman. “The more I think about it now and the more I think about what we’ve done, I couldn’t be prouder of the girls. I don’t think so. I think when we get into the season and we see the change in attendances or when we just keep hitting these records and doing things that are changing the game then maybe it will do. The only thing that’s sunk in is that we’ve done something a little bit crazy because everybody sort of knows who we are.”
“Sarina’s changed things in terms of how we didn’t chase the end goal, we chased the day-to-day, which does make a difference,” she added. “Every time we went into a game we genuinely believed we were going to win it, so that makes you calm anyway because you look around and think ‘we’re all right. The trust with each other is what we worked on and being vulnerable so that when we went into these games, ultimately it’s just a game of football. Before the final, she said ‘we don’t need to win today, we just really, really want to.”
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