SUPER SARINA

Heading back to Wembley Park tube station hours after England had won their first senior international trophy in 56 years, a group of female fans were still serenading the woman who they believed was responsible for the Lionesses’ victory in UEFA Women’s Euro 2022. “Sarina, you’re the one, you still turn me on, football’s coming home again!” – sung to the tune of Atomic Kitten’s iconic hit Whole Again.

Even before becoming the first permanent foreign coach to lead the England women’s team last October, the international coaching credentials of the 52-year-old Sarina Petronella Wiegman-Glotzbach were formidable. In five years in charge of the Netherlands national women’s team, she won12 straight matches at major tournament finals, a sequence that was only ended by USA in the 2019 World Cup final, two years after sweeping to the Women’s Euros title on home soil. At last year’s Tokyo Olympics, only a penalty shootout loss prevented Wiegman from taking the Dutch further