2026-01-27 13:20:20
Sarina Wiegman is targeting further success with England.
The Lionesses coach was honoured with the Football Writers’ Association (FWA) tribute award on Sunday (25.01.26) after leading the team to back-to-back European Championship wins and revealed that she is “driven” by the challenge of winning the World Cup ahead of next year’s tournament in Brazil.
In an interview with the FWA, Wiegman said: “That really drives me, but you want to win games, that’s the job.
“But how to get there, you can’t always control whether you’re going to win or not going to win.
“What you can control is being at your best and being the best prepared and the best bonded team. And that’s what we’re working on every single day.”
England survived a number of close calls to retain their Euros title last year and Wiegman explained that she refuses to take winning “for granted”.
The Dutch coach said: “And I never take for granted winning. We’ve seen this last summer, how close it is, even in the quarter-final, how close it is to win or lose. But where can you find that edge to just make it happen?
“And you need to be at your best, you need to be best connected and sometimes you need a little bit of luck too. But when you do it a lot of times, then it’s not just luck.
“So how big is the chance of making a final? It’s not that big, even when you’re one of the favourites. But I don’t care whether the chance is this big or is this big. We’re going for that chance. And what do we have to do to make that happen?
“So for myself, I said, ‘OK, what do I think that’s necessary to do?’ Not only football, because connecting people is just as [important], maybe even more, with the talent we have. So that’s what I’m working on now.”
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