England received the hearts of the nation with their run to Euro 2022 glory this summer time as they beat Germany 2-1 in Sunday’s closing at Wembley.
Beth Mead received the Golden Boot, Chloe Kelly received the event – and tremendous sub Alessia Russo received many plaudits.
But they have been simply a few of the stars.
So how effectively are you aware the 18 players who featured for the Lionesses this summer time?
Mary Earps
Age: 29. Club: Manchester United. Caps: 24. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Earps performed each minute of England’s marketing campaign, solely conceding two targets in the event.
A 12 months in the past she thought her worldwide profession was over – having not performed for England in two years – and was on her approach to John Lewis to buy curtain poles when she obtained an electronic mail telling her she was in Sarina Wiegman’s first squad in September. She is now the undisputed primary.
Earps and fellow Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea message each other about clean sheets.
Lucy Bronze
Age: 30. Club: Barcelona. Caps: 96. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Bronze – who revealed this week she plays through knee pain – was the 2020 Best Fifa Women’s Player. She has been a key a part of England’s triumph from right-back and scored in the semi-final win over Sweden.
“I’ve performed full-back, however by no means, ever, ever to that stage. She’s the finest participant in the world,” stated her former England supervisor Phil Neville, who received 59 caps for the males’s workforce.
Despite all her accolades, Bronze stays modest and did not wish to admit in a BBC podcast last year she was the finest participant in the world.
Alex Greenwood
Age: 28. Club: Man City. Caps: 66. Euro 2022 apps: 5
Defender Greenwood was maybe the primary casualty of Sarina Wiegman having a most popular beginning XI, narrowly shedding out to Rachel Daly for the opener and subsequently each sport, though she got here on in most matches.
She has the uncommon distinction of getting performed for each Merseyside golf equipment and each Manchester sides.
Her old PE teacher Clare Murphy-Worrell said: “We’ve stored in contact with Alex and he or she’s come again to do shows at college. When she comes, she lights up the corridor. She’s so inspirational.”
Millie Bright
Age: 28. Club: Chelsea. Caps: 58. Euro 2022 apps: 6
A rock at the again, Bright – who has captained England in the previous – made extra clearances than anyone else at Euro 2022.
“Horses have been my past love,” she said in 2019. “I used to work as a groom and health teacher. I miss the exterior aspect of it with the horses, however I’m so grateful that Chelsea got here in for me as I’d not be in the place I’m in now.”
Bright suffered terribly from bronchial asthma and pneumonia as a baby and was usually rushed into hospital in the evening by ambulance.
Leah Williamson
Age: 25. Club: Arsenal. Caps: 37. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Sometimes a midfielder, Williamson is England’s captain and a classy ball-playing centre-back. She made greater than 100 passes above the tally of anyone else in the event.
Williamson’s former PE teacher Jo Green said: “It is not any shock that she has gone on to realize what she has so early in her profession. Leah was all the time a really sort, considerate and hard-working particular person in all the things she did.”
She is a rising star in the world of trend too and this 12 months ran her first fashion show for Gucci.
Jess Carter
Age: 24. Club: Chelsea. Caps: 11. Euro 2022 apps: 1
Carter solely performed as soon as in the event as a second-half substitute in the win over Northern Ireland.
She is in a relationship along with her Chelsea team-mate and Germany goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger – though neither performed in the closing at Wembley.
“The primary factor is about equality. It begins from the backside. Everybody’s obtained to have entry to the identical services and there is obtained to be extra soccer alternatives in all areas of the nation,” Carter told BBC Sport this summer time about variety in ladies’s soccer.
Rachel Daly
Age: 30. Club: Houston Dash. Caps: 56. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Daly performed each sport for England at left-back, having edged Greenwood to the beginning spot.
A “die-hard” Leeds United fan, she has a tattoo with lyrics from the membership’s tune Marching on Together.
The Harrogate-born participant has been based mostly in the United States for a decade, going to college in New York in 2012.
Keira Walsh
Age: 25. Club: Man City. Caps: 48. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Walsh was the metronome at the coronary heart of England’s midfield and arrange Ella Toone’s purpose in the closing with a stunning cross.
A Manchester City fan, she as soon as named two of her goldfish after former strikers Shaun Goater and Nicolas Anelka.
Walsh made her 2 hundredth look for her childhood membership earlier this 12 months, however didn’t realise the reality earlier than the sport.
Georgia Stanway
Age: 23. Club: Bayern Munich. Caps: 39. Euro 2022 apps: 6
A cultured midfielder, Stanway’s sensational quarter-final winner in opposition to Spain will reside lengthy in the reminiscence.
An enormous Alan Shearer fan, she says her Most worthy possession is a Shearer Match Attax card her grandmother gave her shortly earlier than dying.
Stanway left Manchester City in May for German aspect Bayern Munich and her boyfriend, Olly Ashall-Bott, performs for rugby league aspect Toulouse in France.
Fran Kirby
Age: 29. Club: Chelsea. Caps: 63. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Kirby possibly didn’t hit the identical heights as a few of her attacking colleagues this summer time, however her chip in opposition to Sweden was stunning.
She was known as England’s “mini Messi” by her then-manager Mark Sampson at the 2015 World Cup.
Kirby almost quit football as a child after the demise of her mom, who used to foretell Fran would play for England.
Jill Scott
Age: 35. Club: Unattached. Caps: 161. Euro 2022 apps: 4
This is the highly-experienced Scott’s tenth main event with England, having began the Euro 2009 closing defeat to Germany. She made 4 appearances on this marketing campaign from the bench, together with the closing.
Scott owns a espresso store in Manchester along with her associate Shelly Unitt, whose sister Rachel was Scott’s former England team-mate.
The midfielder, a free agent after leaving Manchester City this summer time, has a BBC podcast known as Jill Scott’s Coffee Club.
Ella Toone
Age: 22. Club: Man Utd. Caps: 20. Euro 2022 apps: 6
One of England’s tremendous subs, they’d not have received the event with out Toone. Her late equaliser in opposition to Spain stored them in it – and her chipped end in the closing will go down in folklore.
Toone says she cried in a Starbucks with her father for about an hour after being let go by Manchester City, however a number of months later she joined childhood membership Manchester United.
She says she tries to implement a part of Bruno Fernandes’ sport into her personal.
Alessia Russo
Age: 23. Club: Man Utd. Caps: 12. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Russo was a revelation, coming off the bench in each sport and scoring 4 targets. In reality, she has eight in 13 video games for England, regardless of having solely ever began two video games.
Russo’s former PE teacher Luke Anderson stated “when Alessia joined us in 12 months seven she was so good that we performed her in the boys’ workforce and the ladies’ workforce”.
Her father Mario is Met Police FC’s all-time report goalscorer.
Beth Mead
Age: 27. Club: Arsenal. Caps: 44. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Mead received the award for the finest participant at Euro 2022 and likewise the Golden Boot, scoring six targets in as many video games – edging Germany’s Alexandra Popp on the variety of assists.
That got here only a 12 months after the Arsenal ahead, who now has 28 targets for her nation, did not even make the Team GB Olympic squad for the Tokyo Games.
Mead has a sport development degree from Teesside University, having juggled a full-time course and enjoying for Sunderland at the begin of her profession.
Ellen White
Age: 33. Club: Man City. Caps: 113. Euro 2022 apps: 6
White is England’s all-time feminine high scorer with 52 targets. She labored tirelessly, exhausting defenders in video games earlier than the Lionesses introduced on their subs.
White’s father Jon tried to bet on his daughter enjoying for England when she was solely 10, though the bookmakers wouldn’t take the wager.
She is a West Ham and Cologne fan, having liked Hammers left-back Julian Dicks and copied the ‘goggles’ celebration of the German aspect’s ahead Anthony Modeste.
Lauren Hemp
Age: 21. Club: Man City. Caps: 27. Euro 2022 apps: 6
Hemp has had followers on the fringe of her seat with a few of her wing play this summer time and the Manchester City ahead has received a exceptional 4 consecutive PFA younger participant of the season awards.
Lauren and her sister Amy used to compete in ‘The Hemp Olympics’ of their again backyard.
“I bear in mind we used to have a small backyard and I’d launch this tennis ball at her. She would pluck it out the air as if it was an apple off a tree,” said her father Kevin.
Nikita Parris
Age: 28. Club: Arsenal. Caps: 67. Euro 2022 apps: 2
Parris got here on in the closing minute in opposition to Germany, taking her Euro 2022 marketing campaign to a complete of 5 minutes.
The Toxteth-born ahead began her personal soccer workforce at the age of 11 as a result of she wished a ladies’s workforce in the space. “I gathered all my family and friends and everybody I knew,” said Parris. “We received the league.”
She has a sport growth diploma from Liverpool John Moores University.
Chloe Kelly
Age: 24. Club: Man City. Caps: 15. Euro 2022 apps: 6
A nationwide hero, Kelly’s winner in the closing will see her remembered without end. Another of England’s common ahead substitutions, she solely began three WSL video games final season after 11 months out by way of damage.
Kelly says she may not watch last summer’s Olympics after the ACL damage price her a spot in the Team GB squad.
She used to play cage football along with her 5 older brothers and their buddies when she was a baby.
