The England manager says Rapinoe is ‘one of the most important players’ after the USA forward retired from international football on Sunday
Sarina Wiegman has hailed Megan Rapinoe as “one of the most important players” after the 2019 Ballon d’Or winnerand prepares for her retirement at the end of the NWSL season.
The head coach’s empowered players face her former team in Utrecht on Tuesday. Wiegman made almost 100 appearances for the Netherlands and led them to glory at the. Little wonder she described the upcoming encounter as being “very special.” “Of course we know each other really well, I know the staff, most of the staff didn’t change that much, or the players. Lots of people will be in the stands that I know.”
“We had a good review on the [Scotland] match,” Wiegman said. “We want to do a couple of things a little better, and keep doing the things that we did really well, bring that to the next level too – that’s what we talked about, and then tomorrow we go again.