Is Sarina Wiegman the manager who'll win a World Cup for England?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Manager Sarina Wiegman took over as Lionesses manager in 2020 and is the first non-Brit to lead the team, originally from the Netherlands.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Rob Harris, our sports correspondent, to talk about Wiegman's career history, and Jeanet van der Laan, the England manager’s former Ter Leede and Netherlands teammate to hear what she's like on and off the pitch.
Podcast producers: Rosie Gillott and Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 0:56.8 | just food this is m and s selected stores welcome to the daily with me neil paterson and look let's just |
| 1:02.9 | get this out the way i am scottish and so given how much my english friends have banged on about winning the World Cup back in 1966, |
| 1:13.6 | the idea England might just be about to win it again fills me with a cold dread. |
| 1:20.6 | Or at least I thought it would, and for some reason it actually doesn't. |
| 1:24.6 | There's something very special about this group of women who could soon |
| 1:28.3 | lift the greatest prize in football. They play with passion, yes, they're a team on and off the |
| 1:33.1 | pitch, sure. But there's been something transformative about their success. They are changing |
| 1:39.1 | the way the game is viewed. And behind that success is their manager, Serena Vigna. |
| 1:44.6 | We all have a dream. |
| 1:45.7 | And of course we go there to get the highest level we can and to get as far as possible. |
| 1:50.8 | A player herself, then coach, then manager. |
| 1:53.2 | She led her home nation, the Netherlands, to victory at the Euros and then to a World Cup final. |
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