England girls’s coach Sarina Wiegman insists Ellen White deserves the identical recognition as Wayne Rooney because the Lionesses’ ahead closes in on the nationwide scoring report.
White was twice on the right track as England hammered Norway 8-0 as Wiegman’s facet recorded the largest win in males’s or girls’s European Championship historical past.
England additionally turned the primary group in any Euros to internet eight targets as they sealed prime spot and a spot within the knockout levels.
Whereas it was a profitable outing in Brighton on a group degree, White additionally moved only one strike behind Rooney’s report 53 targets for England.
White was fast to insist that Rooney’s benchmark just isn’t her precedence after the sport, earlier than on-line trolls posted pointless questions surrounding the validity of her report within the girls’s sport.
Wiegman jumped to the defence of her star striker on Thursday as she spoke forward of the group-stage conflict with Northern Eire, insisting proficient potential is identical within the males’s and ladies’s sport.
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“I simply discuss to my squad and to Ellen. Everybody can have their opinion, however I believe what she’s carried out is wonderful, actually good,” Wiegman instructed reporters.
“The participant and individual she is in our group – such an essential function. What she has completed on the pitch and in addition off the pitch is actually, actually nice, and he or she’s so useful for this group. So perhaps I’d say that to these individuals.
“It doesn’t matter when you’re a person or a girl – when you’re nice, you’re nice.
“For her to have achieved that, and the success she’s had over such a very long time, that tells you every thing it’s worthwhile to know.
“She’s been incredible for England for a really very long time, so after all it’s nice to have her on my group.”
White will hope to at the least equal Rooney’s report towards Northern Eire, who’ve misplaced all eight of their earlier conferences with the Lionesses, scoring simply two targets to England’s 44 within the course of.
