He is probably the best trainer in the world. And now she could be the first woman to pick an all-boys team. It’s about big Sarina Wiegman, double European champion in the Netherlands and England and aiming for her first World Cup.
The Dutch coach, who will be Spain’s rival in Sunday’s World Cup final in Sydney, has been approached by the English FA soccer federation to take the reins of the men’s team instead. Gareth Southgate in front of the group.
Southgate, who managed England in 2016, has a contract until the end of Euro 2024, while Wiegman has an agreement with the FA until 2025. As indicated by the British press, there have been talks to extend this agreement further, after the Dutch, who arrived in 2021, guided the English women’s team to win the Euro Cup in 2022 which is the final of this World Cup.
Mark Bullingham, The FA’s chief executive said that if Southgate were to leave, the best person for the job would be chosen, regardless of whether they were a man or a woman: “Our answer is that it has to be the best person for the job. position. sarina He’s doing a great job and we hope he stays that way for a long time. I think Sarina can do whatever she wants in football,” added the manager.
“If at some point in the future he decides he wants to switch to men’s soccer, it will be an interesting conversation, but it’s his decision,” he added.
the dutch Sarah Wiegman has added endless victories to an enviable record. Double European champion, with two different teams, and responsible for taking two different countries to a World Cup final, he hopes to add another step this Sunday, when he leads England in the World Cup final against Spain.
Born in The Hague 53 years ago, Wiegman has enjoyed a rewarding career in which, year after year, he adds new brands. Each time he took the reins of a national team, he managed to reach the final of the major international tournaments in which he participated.
His most recent achievement is being the only person to lead two different countries, first his native Netherlands and now England, to the last time a World Cup in the history of the competition – women’s or men’s.
In a final with a taste of revenge, the Spanish and English will meet again a year after “Las Leonas” eliminated La Roja in the quarterfinals of the Eurocup. And the role of the Dutch coach, in charge of the English team from 2021, could be decisive.
No one has Wiegman’s excellence. It took the coach just seven months to win his first international trophy with the Netherlands, having been appointed permanent coach in January 2017, shortly before a successful campaign that would crown the Oranje, European champions that year.
Also, at the helm of the absolute orange, he achieved the record as the longest serving coach in the country: there were 79 games played, with 56 wins, 7 draws and 16 losses.
Despite becoming England coach in August 2020, he decided to stay in the Netherlands during his Tokyo Olympics campaign, postponed a year due to the covid pandemic, and where the Dutch reached the quarterfinals.
He also led the Netherlands to the final of the 2019 World Cup in France, where they lost to the United States, but achieved a historic position as World Cup runner-up. Four years later, Wiegman found himself again in a final of the biggest event in world soccer, this time in Australia and in front of England.
Victory over Spain would be the culmination of an impeccable roadmap for the English team, current European champions, and Wiegman’s extensive curriculum.
Source: La Verdad
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