Since 1997, all European Women’s Championships have been won by a woman as coach. This stat will therefore not end in 2022, but it remains to be seen who of Sarine Wiegman or Martina Voss-Tecklenburg will take her team to final victory.
Both dream of winning another Euro. Sarina Wiegman, who won the European Championship with the Netherlands in 2017 could offer herself a formidable double if England win this Sunday, July 31. She would even become the first in history to lift the trophy with two different nations. While opposite, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg wants to put Germany back on top, after six years of scarcity, and join her counterpart Berti Vogts in the very closed circle of people who have won the Euro as a player and coach.
Moreover, if the former defender had not played during the 1972 European championship, before training Germany during the victory in 1996, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, she was well on the ground during his four titles in the competition (1989, 1991, 1995, 1997).
Voss-Tecklenburg, a vision that has evolved
If when she started with Germany (in 2018), the coach wanted to control everything, and the World Cup in France was not a great success for her team, since 2019 she has been able to question herself and do change its vision of things by calling on more co-management. with the players, “it builds an understanding, more confidence. All this allows for more consistent performance »underlines Voss-Tecklenburg, which has set up its trio of captains Alexandra Popp, Svenja Huth and Sara Däbritz.
The 54-year-old coach also brought his paw with a game that goes a lot through the wings and with good crosses towards the opposing surface. What was, at the time when she played, one of the first qualities of Martina Voss-Tecklenburg. A method that she retransmits today, from the bench, and which still proves its worth. France paid the price in the semi-final (2-1), against an Alexandra Popp always well placed at the reception and intractable in the face of goal.
Wiegman, trust above all
Sure to extend its lease beyond the 2023 World Cup, whatever the result of this Euro final, Voss-Tecklenburg will find on its way this Sunday a Sarina Wiegman in full confidence.
Confidence is also the state of mind that she has been able to instil in this English team, since taking office in August 2020, in order to transform this team full of quality into a real winning machine. “We always had a game plan, but now we manage to express ourselves in it as a player”, had underlined the defender Millie Bright, concerning the change driven by the 52-year-old Dutch coach. An offensive and seductive game that has delighted since the start of this Euro, in particular the image of Alessia Russo’s heel goal in the semi-final against Sweden (4-0).
A final that promises a great show between German rigor and English madness. From there to see another eight goals as in 2009, during the final of the Euro between the two teams (6-2, victory of the Germans)?
