{"id":615520,"date":"2022-08-02T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615520"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:44:37","slug":"england-women-triumph-at-euro-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/england-women-triumph-at-euro-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"England Women Triumph at Euro 2022 &#8211; What It Means for the Women&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still fresh in the memory &#8211; England women have won <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/05\/lionesses-euro-2022-preview\/\" target=\"_self\">Euro 2022<\/a>. It&#8217;s a historic feat achieved by the Lionesses but there have been several hurdles to overcome along the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MORNING!<\/p>\n<p>Just your daily reminder that we are EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS \ud83d\ude0e\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XEAUiOEemf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XEAUiOEemf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lionesses (@Lionesses) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lionesses\/status\/1554380169707720705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>From Being Banned to England Women Success At Euro 2022<\/h2>\n<h3>How It Started<\/h3>\n<p>Just over 100 years ago, the Football Association in their infinite wisdom banned women from playing football. The game was considered unsuitable for ladies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was despite the success of the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickkerrladies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dick, Kerr Ladies<\/a>, a Preston-based club that once played before 50,000 fans at Goodison Park in 1920.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the FA were jealous? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their narrow-minded restriction would last over 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward a century and the world is certainly a much different place. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even at the Football Association, <\/span>where the chairperson is now a lady, Debbie Hewitt.<\/p>\n<p>After England women triumphed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/womenseuro\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Euro 2022<\/a>, nobody is now considering banning them from playing the beautiful game.<\/p>\n<h3>New Professionals<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But such past setbacks did mean the development of the women\u2019s game in England took some time to progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed professionalism only arrived in the Women\u2019s Super League in 2018, some ten years after its creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That undoubtedly raised the standards and also attracted top players from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That Super League and also a European Champions League replicated the men&#8217;s successful formula.<\/p>\n<h3>England Women Triumph at Euro 2022<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having done well in past World Cups and Euros and with a strong squad, they would go into the Euro 2022 tournament as one of the favourites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Sarina Wiegman\u2019s management, the Lionesses eased through their group beating past champions Norway 8-0 along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They would need a late equaliser from Ella Toone and an extra-time winner from Barrow\u2019s Georgia Stanway to get past Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before a strong second-half performance, enjoyed by an ecstatic Sheffield crowd, they dealt with Sweden in the semis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This left a familiar foe, Germany, to defeat at a sold-out Wembley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps inevitably the match had echoes of past final dramas with Lina Magull replacing Wolfgang Weber as the German hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who knows if Sarina Wiegman used Alf Ramsey&#8217;s words, to win it again, in the huddle before extra-time began? But win it they did. Thanks to Chloe Kelly&#8217;s determination.<\/p>\n<h3>Echoes of 1966<\/h3>\n<p>England Women&#8217;s triumph at Euro 2022 was almost 56 years to the day since England won their only other senior football title.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watched by a record crowd of 87,000 at Wembley and a substantial TV audience the result triggered massive celebrations around the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certainly, it was an experience both a lot more joyous, heart-warming, and without the nastiness and chaos of the last men\u2019s Euros final.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Inspiring for Future Generations<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no question the England players will be an inspiration for many children, including the thousands present at Wembley on that warm evening in late July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For them, it will be unforgettable. E<\/span>xpect more girls to be called Chloe.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quite rightly, the discussion should turn to better appreciation and compensation for female professional footballers. As nobody would now consider banning women from playing football.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still fresh in the memory &#8211; England women have won Euro 2022. It&#8217;s a historic feat achieved by the Lionesses but there have been several hurdles to overcome along the way. MORNING! Just your daily reminder that we are EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS \ud83d\ude0e\ud83c\udfc6 pic.twitter.com\/XEAUiOEemf &mdash; Lionesses (@Lionesses) August 2, 2022 From Being Banned to England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2212,"featured_media":615584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7007,161],"tags":[8196,9294],"class_list":["post-615520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-football","category-international-football","tag-england-womens-football","tag-euro-2022"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}