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Tom HamiltonJul 27, 2025, 05:05 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2011 BASEL, Switzerland — England<\/a> star Chloe Kelly<\/a> thanked Sarina Wiegman for the trust she showed in her and said the manager “gave me hope when I probably didn’t have any.”<\/p>\n Kelly scored the winning penalty in the shootout as England retained their Euro 2025 title<\/a> on Sunday after their final with Spain ended 1-1 after extra-time.<\/p>\n Disney+ becomes new home of Women’s Champions League in Europe Disney+ will be the only place football fans can watch all 75 matches live each season.<\/a> Visit the Disney+ website to get access.<\/p>\n Kelly was England’s heroine back in Euro 2022 when she scored the winning goal in their win over Germany<\/a>, and she saved the Lionesses in Switzerland as a substitute.<\/p>\n She made a big impact off the bench against Sweden<\/a>, and then scored the winner against Italy<\/a>. In the final against Spain, she provided the assist for Alessia Russo’s equaliser and then hammered home the winning penalty.<\/p>\n It capped a rollercoaster year for Kelly. Back in January she contemplated walking away from the sport as she found herself out of favour at Manchester City<\/a>. But she completed a loan move to Arsenal<\/a> — a team she has since joined on a permanent deal — and started in their Champions League final win over Barcelona<\/a>. Now she has added the Euro 2025 title.<\/p>\n “There were a lot of tears at full-time especially when I saw my family because those were the people that got me through those tough dark moments,” Kelly said.<\/p>\n “If that’s a story to tell, someone who maybe experiences something the same, tough times don’t last. Just around the corner was a Champions League final, won that. Then a Euros final, won that. Thank you to everyone that wrote me off, I’m grateful.”<\/p>\n – England’s Euro 2025 win defies logic; Spain’s curse continues<\/a> On the role Wiegman played, Kelly said: “She’s bloody amazing. She’s an incredible woman, what she’s done for this country, we should all be so grateful for. What she’s done for me individually, she gave me hope when I probably didn’t have any. She gave me an opportunity to represent my country again. I knew that I had to get game time and representing England is never a given.<\/p>\n “But what she has done for the women’s game, not just in England, in the Netherlands she has done it, she has taken it to a whole other level. The work doesn’t go unnoticed from the staff behind her, they’re incredible people and I’m so grateful to have worked with such amazing staff members.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom HamiltonJul 27, 2025, 05:05 PM ET Close\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2011\u2022\u00a0Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-41871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022\u00a0Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours
\u2022\u00a0Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1497653_1296x729_16-9.jpg\")
<\/p>\nChloe Kelly scored England’s winning penalty in style in the final against Spain.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
– Lucy Bronze says she played Euro 2025 with fractured tibia<\/a><\/p>\n