Soccer Affiliation chief govt Mark Bullingham described England boss Sarina Wiegman as priceless when requested about her future with the Lionesses.
Wiegman guided England to their third consecutive main event ultimate (World Cup/Euros) following their dramatic extra-time victory over Italy at Euro 2025 on Tuesday.
She is seeking to win a 3rd consecutive Girls’s Euros, having lifted the trophy in 2017 with the Netherlands and repeated the trick in 2022 with the Lionesses.
The 55-year-old would develop into solely the third supervisor to win the competitors thrice, after Gero Bisanz (1989, 1991 and 1995) and Tina Theune (1997, 2001 and 2005).
England’s victory over Italy within the ultimate 4 – helped by Michelle Agyemang and Chloe Kelly’s late heroics – was Wiegman’s one hundredth triumph as a everlasting worldwide supervisor.
Of these wins, 48 have include England, and Bullingham is hoping she will be able to add yet one more to her tally in Sunday’s ultimate towards Spain, and plenty of extra past that.
“I wish to pay tribute to Sarina. I believe her file individually is phenomenal,” stated Bullingham, talking earlier than Sunday’s Euro 2025 ultimate towards Spain.
“Once I spoke to [the media] earlier than the event, I stated we have been fortunate to have her and I nonetheless really feel that means. I believe she has been unbelievable.
“Her file of managing in 5 tournaments and reaching 5 finals is phenomenal.
“I don’t imagine anybody has been anyplace close to that previously and it is going to be actually onerous to do sooner or later. She’s a very particular coach and we’re delighted to have her with us.”
Wiegman can also be the primary supervisor in both the lads’s or ladies’s recreation to characteristic in 5 successive main worldwide finals, together with two with the Netherlands at Euro 2017 and the 2019 World Cup.
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However England will face a stern check towards Spain in a repeat of the 2023 World Cup ultimate, from which La Roja emerged 1-0 victors.
England and Spain have confronted off thrice beforehand on the Girls’s Euros, with these video games coming within the three earlier tournaments earlier than 2025.
Spain received 3-2 within the group stage in 2013, whereas the Lionesses have been victorious 2-0 in 2017 within the group stage and received 2-1 within the 2022 quarter-finals.
Spain may develop into the primary nation to elevate the World Cup and Euros at consecutive tournaments since Germany between 2001 and 2009 (5 in a row).
They’ve received their final 9 video games at main tournaments, with the Netherlands the final European nation to win 10 in a row, profitable 12 throughout the 2017 Euros and 2019 World Cup underneath Wiegman, who’s contracted to England till 2027.
Requested if it will be tough to retain Wiegman after one other profitable event, and if there was any worth that might sway the FA to let her depart, Bullingham stated: “No worth in any respect.
“We’re dedicated to her till 2027 and he or she is dedicated to us. We now have a brand new [coaching] workforce coming in for her,” he added.
“We haven’t fairly began engaged on the plans for [the 2027 World Cup] however I do know her focus, hopefully after success on Sunday, will shift fairly shortly to that.”