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Sarina Wiegman will be at the helm of the Leones of England through the next cycle of the World Cup, regardless of the performance of the team at the next Euro 2025 tournament, according to the CEO of the Football Association, Mark Bullingham.
Wiegman, who led England to the glory of the Euro of 2022 and the final of the World Cup of 2023, hired with the FA until 2027. Despite being attracted to a group of Euro challenging with France, the Netherlands, and Wales, is fully supported by the Dutch coach. For the future.
“We are delighted that Sarina is in her place until 2027 and I do not see any scenario change,” said Bullingham.
“I think he has done a phenomenal job and we are very happy to have -with us. It is a very important part of our organization.”
Although the Wiegman agreement works until after the next World Cup, it has not yet had conversations about the extension of its term beyond 2027.
“She is the most successful coach of women’s international football today,” added Bullingham. “We have not yet begun to look beyond this time scale or to participate in these conversations.
“I think we feel that we have closed for this tournament and the next. Now it feels very good, but that does not mean that we would not have a conversation sometime in the future, but it is too soon for it.”
Sarina Wiegman will remain head coach of England even if lions suffer an early exit to euros this summer
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In the meantime, Wiegman’s assistant, Arjan Veurink, will leave his role after the 2025 euro becomes the main coach of the women’s team in the Netherlands. He had also been hired until 2027, and Bulingham confirmed that the FA received a compensation rate for having released it early.
“It was a difficult circumstance in a way because it was his dream job and has a young family in the Netherlands, so I’m sure this is the only opportunity he would have been tempted,” said Bullingham. “The opportunity set many of its boxes on a personal level.
“We feel we found some really good replacements (in Janneke Bijl and Arvid Suit).
Bullingham, on the topic of recent retirement from the workforce, abstained from directly commenting on the retirement of Mary Earps and Fran Kirby, or Millie Bright’s decision to pause his functions in England for health reasons.
“I think Sarina addressed it in detail and we are looking forward, not backwards,” he said. “We are really safe in the squad that we have gone to euros.
“Our goal is to win. With regard to the accumulation of the tournament, I think we feel like the team in a really good place. Obviously, there have been several players who have returned from injuries and we are happy that we have recovered them.”
