Women’s Euros

merlotgran Pretty sure she has some special needs

Fantastic! Sooo proud. Well done Lionesses!
Wonderful to have some good news.

Bridie22

I think its his daughter ?

She was a bit pushy!

I think its his daughter ?

Who is the young girl beside the President of EUFA in n the podium?

merlotgran

I’m so excited I posted on the Horse Racing thread! 😂😂😂

I obviously can’t think straight.

😹😹😹

I’m so excited I posted on the Horse Racing thread! 😂😂😂

I obviously can’t think straight.

Sooo proud! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️

Amazing match again but glad it’s all over. My nerves couldn’t take any more!

the door open for him, which he then used as an opening to “slide into her DMs” on social media.
Kelly, 27, revealed last summer that they had their first date in Ikea after he offered to help her move house. The couple married in July last year, with their glamorous wedding covered exclusively by British Vogue.
Tucked under her socks when she plays professionally, she wears shin pads printed with a photo of herself and her husband on their wedding day alongside their dogs.
But no matter how many trophies she wins and how much she has grown up, her old coaches cannot forget the girl they knew.
“Even though she’s a little bit bigger now, I still see the same girl,” Rossiter said, “the blonde bob gliding down the wing.”

Confidence comes from within but from around you as well.”
Kelly’s fighting spirit is the result of growing up the youngest of seven siblings, according to Quashie, the women’s and girls’ technical lead for Queens Park Rangers.
Much of her childhood was spent playing football with her brothers — Jack, Daniel and triplets Ryan Jamie and Martin — at the cage on Ealing’s Windmill Park Estate. She also has a sister, Paris. After her Euros success in 2022, a plaque was installed at the estate as part of the Where Greatness Is Made campaign.
“The creative side to my football I get from the cages,” she reflected in an interview with England Football. “Even the physical side, because you get bounced off the cage and you have to get back up and go again.”
“If I was on the floor, it was
‘get up or you don’t play with us’”.

Kelly’s love of the game stems from her parents, Jane and Noel, who are diehard QPR supporters and signed her up to the club’s weekly development training session when she was eight.
Quashie, who coached the club’s under-8 team, said he quickly realised that she was special.
“Being with her older brothers in the cages, getting roughed up a little bit, showed her that she could compete with bigger players,” he said, adding: “There’s just no fear in her”.
Kelly’s obsession with football was plain to see. She would always turn up to training early with a ball tucked under her arm, despite the club providing plenty, just so she could have a kickabout before the other girls ar-
rived. After matches that would tire out most of her peers, she infuriated the groundsman by staying on the pitch and continuing to play.
But it was her technical skill with the ball that “blew people away”.
Craig Rossiter, another QPR coach who taught Kelly in the under-10 team, said she had an unmatched ability to do endless keepy-uppies, as well as fancy flicks and tricks.
During games he vividly remembers seeing her “blonde bob gliding past players” and thinking “she was destined to be a star”.
He added: “Not many people would remember a Ryan Giggs type of player, but she was like that.
“She would just cruise past people, against opposition, but then she’d end it with a 20-yard strike into the goal.”
Kelly went on to join Arsenal’s Centre of Excellence aged 12 and stayed there to start her senior career at 17. She later moved to Everton and then Manchester City in 2020. Despite initially doing well with the club, she was frozen out of the squad after a breakdown in her relationship with the manager, Gareth Taylor. She rejoined Arsenal in January.
The Lioness’s love life is also entangled with football. She met her husband, Scott Moore, while she was playing for Everton and he was a groundsman. She held

“I knew Chloe Kelly was special at 8 years old, says first coach
The Lionesses winger has a habit of scoring important goals in tournaments — and her talent and determination was evident from a young age

Charlie Parker, News Reporter | Kit Shepard, Women's Football Reporter
It was in the football cage of an Ealing estate that Chloe Kelly found her feet.
By the time she was ten, tales of her talents were spreading around the west London borough as she took on her five older brothers and their friends on the concrete pitch.
“I’d hear stories about her in the cages, showboating and embarrassing players because of how good she was,” Steve Quashie, her first coach, recalled. “Other boys who played in the area were saying: ‘This kid’s unbelievable, she’s nutmegging me and doing rainbow flicks and I can’t get the ball off her!’”
“You can imagine: boys going to their lessons and being teased about getting skilled up by a little girl,” he added with a chuckle, “but it’s just the way it was.”
Nearly 20 years later, the hopes of the nation now rest at Kelly’s feet as England prepare to battle Spain for the women’s
Chloe Kelly is hoping to bring home another Euros for England
NEALE HAYNES/GETTY IMAGES

European Championship trophy on Sunday.
Her 110th-minute winner in the final of the same tournament three years ago delighted the country, with many fans praying she can “bring football home” once again.
The striker’s route to the Euros has been rocky, however. In January, her position in the pack of Lionesses was in question as she considered hanging up her boots for good.
Amid a bitter row with her manager at Manchester City, her lack of playing time for the club became a concern that nearly scuppered her selection for the England squad. But after signing
for Arsenal and helping the club to win the Champions League, she managed to make the team by the skin of her teeth.
It is lucky she did, as had Kelly not made the cut, the Lionesses could have been out of the Euros more than a week ago. She has helped England through their quarter-final with Sweden and semi-final against Italy on Tuesday, when she scored the winner in the 119th minute from a penalty rebound.
“The moments in January when I felt like giving up football make you so grateful for these moments here today,” she said after the semi-final. “It makes you enjoy every minute of that.
Chloe Kelly celebrates after scoring the winner for England in the 2022 European Championship final against Germany
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND

Confidence comes from within but from around you as well.”
Kelly’s fighting spirit is the result of growing up the youngest of seven siblings, according to Quashie, the women’s and girls’ technical lead for Queens Park Rangers.
Much of her childhood was spent playing football with her brothers — Jack, Daniel and triplets Ryan Jamie and Martin — at the cage on Ealing’s Windmill Park Estate. She also has a sister, Paris. After her Euros success in 2022, a plaque was installed at the estate as part of the Where Greatness Is Made campaign.
“The creative side to my football I get from the cages,” she reflected in an interview with England Football. “Even the physical side, because you get bounced off the cage and you have to get back up and go again.”
“If I was on the floor, it was
‘get up or you don’t play with us’”.

Kelly’s love of the game stems from her parents, Jane and Noel, who are diehard QPR supporters and signed her up to the club’s weekly development training session when she was eight.
Quashie, who coached the club’s under-8 team, said he quickly realised that she was special.
“Being with her older brothers in the cages, getting roughed up a little bit, showed her that she could compete with bigger players,” he said, adding: “There’s just no fear in her”.
Kelly’s obsession with football was plain to see. She would always turn up to training early with a ball tucked under her arm, despite the club providing plenty, just so she could have a kickabout before the other girls ar-
rived. After matches that would tire out most of her peers, she infuriated the groundsman by staying on the pitch and continuing to play.
But it was her technical skill with the ball that “blew people away”.
Craig Rossiter, another QPR coach who taught Kelly in the under-10 team, said she had an unmatched ability to do endless keepy-uppies, as well as fancy flicks and tricks.
During games he vividly remembers seeing her “blonde bob gliding past players” and thinking “she was destined to be a star”.
He added: “Not many people would remember a Ryan Giggs type of player, but she was like that.
“She would just cruise past people, against opposition, but then she’d end it with a 20-yard strike into the goal.”
Kelly went on to join Arsenal’s Centre of Excellence aged 12 and stayed there to start her senior career at 17. She later moved to Everton and then Manchester City in 2020. Despite initially doing well with the club, she was frozen out of the squad after a breakdown in her relationship with the manager, Gareth Taylor. She rejoined Arsenal in January.
The Lioness’s love life is also entangled with football. She met her husband, Scott Moore, while she was playing for Everton and he was a groundsman. She held
the door open for him, which he then used as an opening to “slide into her DMs” on social media.
Kelly, 27, revealed last summer that they had their first date in Ikea after he offered to help her move house. The couple married in July last year, with their glamorous wedding covered exclusively by British Vogue.
Tucked under her socks when she plays professionally, she wears shin pads printed with a photo of herself and her husband on their wedding day alongside their dogs.
But no matter how many trophies she wins and how much she has grown up, her old coaches cannot forget the girl they knew.
“Even though she’s a little bit bigger now, I still see the same girl,” Rossiter said, “the blonde bob gliding down the wing.”

A big phew! Yippee they did it. Well done The Lionesses!

I couldn’t watch it ( I listened from another room). There’s a very good article in the Times about Chloe Kelly..

Fan bloody tastic, well done lionesses, so proud🏆🍷🏆🍷🏆🎉🎉

Again!

YES 🏆

We Did It 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏆 👏

Nerve held, well done 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Neither can I 😩

Oh no! Penalties.

I can't watch.

It will be an incredible atmosphere Rosieand herMaw come on Lionesses 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️

It’s anybody’s game now it’s gone to extra time.
And if it goes to Penalties - well it’s like Russian Roulette!

I don’t generally watch football. I’m currently avoiding it as I so want Lionesses to win but can’t bear the tension. Silly, I know. Currently it’s 1 - 1. I wish them all the best, win or loose.

Just heard from D1 that SIL and GS2 ( a keen footballer, plays for Birmingham City under 13’s ) who are currently on a cycling tour starting in Switzerland , and along the Rhine valley with GS’s school, - are at the final
Quelle coincidence 😂😂😂

Bridie22 - Yes I agree, they are a great group of ladies managed by the wonderful Sarina Weigman. The Lionesses never give up even when behind. I so want them to win again.