She played most of her career for Ter Leede, winning two league titles, and had one season abroad, representing the University of North Carolina.

She stayed there for nine years, helping them to win two Dutch championships and the KNVB Cup. Sarina Wiegman took over as Netherlands coach in January 2017 and six months later they had won the Euros. Sarina Wiegman to succeed Neville as England head coach from September 2021, Holland edge past Denmark in thriller to secure Euro 2017 title, Megan Rapinoe on the spot as USA beat Netherlands to win Womens World Cup, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Higher higher! We were laughing and she was saying, What is happening? In her one and only season in charge, Wiegman led Ter Leede to the Dutch championship and KNVB Cup. Where she didnt feel understood. The job involved building a new team. On Friday, she was appointed Englands head coach and will start her role in September 2021 after leading the Netherlands at the Olympics. When I was 19, I wanted to live on my own, so I did. [40], In August 2020, The Football Association announced that Wiegman had signed a four-year contract and would take the job of manager of the England women's national football team, starting in September 2021, taking over from Phil Neville. A year later, after the World Cup, she was asked to become head coach.

The previous record was 130 against Hungary set in 2005. After a week she saw that those kinds of rules werent really working.. She had put the right people in the right positions and had created a safe environment, in which we didnt feel pressured and felt we shouldnt be afraid by anyone, says the Arsenal midfielder Danille van de Donk. At the European Championship, the Netherlands won every match, culminating in a 42 defeat of Denmark in the Final. She learns really quick. [35] The team also received praise for their attractive playing style. [5][6], Wiegman was appointed head coach six months before the start of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, for which the Netherlands had automatically qualified as hosts.

She was the fore-fighter of our rights and equal treatment in the professional football world, says Stentler. As the team and league developed, there were naturally some players who couldnt keep up with the pace of the progression. Though Wiegman was nervous about her move to a new country and environment, Dorrance remembers a player who fit in seamlessly. The match was Wiegman's sixth in charge and maintained her 100% record with the Lionesses, outscoring their opponents 530 during that time. It was a call of monumental proportions from Wiegman. She always made sure she had an assistant coach who is complementary to her. In 2007, after one year with Ter Leede, she took over at ADO Den Haag as the womens top-flight in the Netherlands turned professional. Of course, we laughed a lot about it and later she said she thought it was the best joke we made during our ADO time. You dont really realise how good she is until she is gone.. [5][6] At the same time, Foppe de Haan was appointed as her assistant. The pair had first met two years earlier when Wiegman made a special trip to watch Van der Laan play because she was the first girl in the Netherlands to play among boys at the highest youth level. [10] Here, all women's players had to work aside from football. I only had a washing machine and not a dryer. Her two daughters were still young and she wanted to focus on them. From the outset, though, it was clear Wiegman wanted more. Danille van de Donk celebrates after scoring the Netherlands second goal against England in the Euro 2017 semi-final. Wiegman continued playing for Ter Leede until the age of 33 when she and husband Marten Glotzbach decided to start a family.

Theyre a very direct, brash, confident culture. Its a really fine combination of focus on your talent and development and getting the best out of everything (off the field). But once we were talking it felt good. From London, Wiegman went to Barcelona to meet Lieke Martens.

What Wiegman saw and felt from Dorrance and his longtime assistant Bill Palladino was the power of combining a demanding, competitive environment with a deep interest in people.

Her integrity is amazing. [34] Wiegman subsequently worked on improving players' confidence and on a change in playing style to more attacking football.[34]. [23][17] In 2013, ADO were once again victorious in the KNVB Cup.

Players were also asked to express in a creative way what success meant to them. [16], In 1987, Wiegman joined KFC '71, where she won the KNVB Cup in the same year. [14][41] Her appointment made her the first non-British permanent Lionesses manager.

It felt a bit weird, eating together with my coach, said Dekker. What Geurts does talk about though is the impact on a team when they see a manager make such seismic decisions: In a way, it shows strength and it gives confidence because you know that your coach will always do whats best for the team and always put the team first. So I had a quick cup of coffee, gave them a hug and spent the rest of the day on a chair in the woods, all by myself.. A warm and welcoming boss.

Sarina and a few of the other older players fought for the right to play the home games on there. I recall a debate of who plays on field number one. So we had to do everything as a team. Just maybe sometimes she should let go a little bit more, adds Geurts, smiling.

We thought, Oh my god, she knows and now shes so mad.

[44] Wiegman's first game in charge was an 80 win against North Macedonia to begin 2023 World Cup qualification. [12] Two years later, she guided the team to a runners-up medal at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. It made her want to work harder. [26], On 1 August 2015, following Roger Reijners' dismissal as head coach of the Netherlands Women, Wiegman was appointed as interim head coach. The number of sprints, the number of exercises, the timing of them, everything was always according to a tight schedule., Before and after training, players would see her other side: friendly with a sense of humour. Ter Leede was a very emancipated football club but she always wanted to have the facilities right she learned that from the US, says Van der Laan. It was full-time or nothing. These examples were really at the beginning, and now she knows exactly when someone needs a little bit of strict rules or no rules.

It definitely showed that she (Wiegman) has the balls to make big decisions to get to a good result which is important but it was hard for both of them..

She is in control but in a relaxed way. She is married to Marten Glotzbach and they have two daughters together. Geurts says that Wiegman did the best she could to deal with her disappointment but that ultimately, she needed someone external to the situation to help her come to terms with it.

Wiegman said no. The Lionesses have come to relish the honest and direct style of communication. [15][17], Wiegman later described the team quality and working conditions as being "of the highest level", which made for a stark contrast with the situation in the Netherlands when she returned there after one year.

Why is everyone laughing?, The twins were busted when they attempted to switch back and Wiegman spotted Sanne running away towards the car park.

She was saying, You should be focused right now, what is this?

Wiegman also arrived with her own ideas about the best way to prepare for a match. [42][43] Norwegian Hege Riise assumed the role on an interim basis in January 2021 until Wiegman could take over. [5] In 2016, Wiegman received her full coaching licence and became the first woman to work as coach at a Dutch professional football organisation. [22] In 2012, she led ADO to the Eredivisie title and KNVB Cup.

[15][17] In 2003, she retired after becoming pregnant with her second child. And she led it that way.. [19] It was later revealed that five of her caps were against non-FIFA affiliated opponents, so her official cap total now stands at 99. I think its from both sides my side, being more mature and accepting things the way they are and from her side, to keep communicating with me in an honest and direct way, which might be Dutch, but for me, it really works.

Although she appeared 104 times for her country (which was initially recognised by the KNVB),[8][10][11] caps won against non-FIFA affiliated opponents resulted in her official cap total standing just short of a century, at 99. [2][3], On 31 July 2016, Wiegman received her UEFA Pro coaching licence, having completed the Dutch Football Association's coaching course and a one-year internship at Sparta Rotterdam. She finished her trip by driving in a rental car from Barcelona to Montpellier in the south of France, where Anouk Dekker showed her around and took her to a nice restaurant.

I thought: what is she doing here, said Janssen. [30] In doing so, she became the first female coach at a Dutch professional football organisation. And where Stentler says Wiegman realised we had to make major steps in Holland to be able to keep fighting on the level of these kinds of teams. In her first season, she won the Dutch league and has not looked back since.

Being a mother, teacher and coach was not going to work anymore.

In 1986, at the age of sixteen, Wiegman was first selected for the Netherlands. Wiegman was 37 when she took on the ADO job. [17], In the summer of 2007, Wiegman became manager of the women's team of ADO Den Haag, who would be competing in the newly established Women's Eredivisie. The combination of older, experienced players like Wiegman (who was already doing bits of coaching with children and regional teams for the Dutch federation) and young talent like Van der Laan helped Ter Leedes women to become champions in 2001.

During her five years as an ADO player, Stentler saw Wiegman grow into her role as a head coach.

Yes, it did, actually, says Geurts. What she has done really well is to know where her qualities are, says Geurts of Wiegman. When things werent going as she wanted, she always sits down with you and tries to get to know the reason behind it. [39] On 9 July 2019, it was announced a likeness of Wiegman will be added to the statue garden of the Dutch Football Association, KNVB, for her contributions to Dutch football. It also helped to improve the understanding between Wiegman and her players, something Geurts believes was a big part of improving the team spirit. It changed my life, she told The Coaches Voice.

In the summer of 2007, she joined ADO Den Haag, a new team formed to compete in the inaugural season of the Eredivisie (a league created to help raise the level of the womens game in the Netherlands), and was led by Wiegman, a former Dutch captain.

To anything else, shes just blind is not the right word, but she doesnt let anyone or anything change her mind or influence her., Stentler went through her own difficult periods at ADO.

Kept possession. For the men, everything is arranged. But she likes these kinds of things if its at the right time!. [14], Wiegman was born in The Hague and started playing football on the street at an early age. Of course, they were her rules but we felt they were our rules because we made it together. When you look at her a lot of people think that she hasnt got humour. As a result, I think to some extent she felt at home within our culture. Since taking over as England head coach, the Lionesses have had to get used to Wiegmans direct style of communication and serious demeanour.

She tried to fight for that at every moment. And while Stentler says that in many ways she has not changed at all (its funny to see how she is still Sarina and I recognise her always), there are some things that are different.

The first time Sarina Wiegman was offered the chance to become the head coach of a womens team, she said no. [10] They became NCAA champions in 1989. Yes, they wanted her to work hard in training and games, but they also cared about her development as a human being away from the pitch. She was gritty. To compare her with the start of us now she looks like the boss all the time. [8][11][18] Two days later, she was honoured with a shield awarded by the men's head coach Louis van Gaal.

On 23 October 2017, Wiegman was awarded The Best FIFA Women's Coach title at that year's The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony, ahead of Denmark coach Nils Nielsen and Lyon coach Grard Prcheur. That spirit was sternly tested during Wiegmans first tournament as Netherlands head coach in 2017. The men of Ter Leede werent that good.

Ambitious and demanding are words Stentler uses to describe her initial impressions of Wiegman when she started playing for her. Then you find out how she is as a human and shes always interested in you as a human.

If a player wants to perform at the highest level, they should know it requires the maximum effort to get there, Wiegman told them. How you are doing affects the way you play. I didnt feel guilty about it, but I did feel bad., She makes her staff members feel important and Foppe de Haan, who was her assistant at Euro 2017, has described her as a control freak, adding: She prepares everything in the smallest detail. [46], UEFA Women's Euro 2017 winners (1st title), Netherlands women's national football team, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that year's The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony, NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship, "Women's Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020: Squad list, Netherlands", "Sarina Wiegman: "Wij gaan ons plaatsen voor de Olympische Spelen", "Sarina Wiegman bondscoach Nederlands vrouwenelftal", "Wiegman bondscoach Oranje-vrouwen, De Haan assistent", "NORTH CAROLINA SOCCER DOES A NUMBER ON OPPOSITION", "Voetbalsters debuteren op WK, dat ontgaat Nederland niet", "Oranje Europees kampioen na spectaculaire finale", "Oranje houdt lang stand, maar moet wereldtitel aan VS laten", "England Women appoint Sarina Wiegman as new head coach", "Power naps and big steaks: meet Sarina Wiegman, the new England Women head coach", "Wedstrijdverslag: Nederland Denemarken", "Sarina Wiegman trainer damesteam ADO DH", "Sarina Wiegman assistent bij de Oranje vrouwen", "Sarina Wiegman verruilt ADO Den Haag voor Oranje", "Wiegman derde vrouw die voor hoogste trainersdiploma gaat", "Sarina Wiegman Stagiair Bij Technische Staf A-Selectie", "Sarina Wiegman interim-bondscoach vrouwenelftal", "Van der Laan replaces Reijners as Dutch coach", "Sarina Wiegman: 'Vrouwen moeten veel brutaler worden', "Sarina Wiegman Tijdelijk Assistent Jong Sparta", "Sparta zorgt voor primeur met kans voor trainster Wiegman", "Primeur in Nederlands voetbal: een vrouw op de bank", "Van der Laan leaves Netherlands job after just fifteen months", "Holland victory a triumph for Dutch flair and Sarina Wiegman's tactical nous", "Europese titel is triomf van collectief voor Oranje Leeuwinnen", "EK-winnaar Wiegman gelauwerd als beste coach", "Koning ontvangt voetbalvrouwen op Paleis Noordeinde", "Dutch women downhearted but have makings of future champions", "Wiegman voegt zich tussen illustere namen en krijgt standbeeld bij KNVB", "England women: Sarina Wiegman to succeed Phil Neville in September 2021", "Sarina Wiegman will become our new England Women's head coach from September 2021", "Hege Riise: the quiet Norway legend given temporary charge of England women", "England deliver thrashing in Wiegman's first match", "England put 20 past Latvia in record victory", "The Best FIFA Football Awards - The Best FIFA Women's Coach - FIFA.com", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarina_Wiegman&oldid=1099559932, Netherlands women's international footballers, North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer players, Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States, Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States, Netherlands women's national football team managers, UEFA Women's Championship-winning managers, Articles with dead external links from May 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using national squad without sport or team link, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, *Club domestic league appearances and goals, This page was last edited on 21 July 2022, at 11:54. For Wiegman, the solution was simple though not easy. With this, she showed that she doesnt; that shes only focused on the result which shows how far she will go to reach a goal. By the time Euro 2017 came round, Wiegman and her staff had created a team that felt they were unbeatable. [20], On 24 January 2006, it was announced that Wiegman would become manager of Ter Leede.

How are your parents?. In January 2017, she was. One of them came during the Euros when she dropped the captain, Mandy van den Berg, whom she knew from ADO Den Haag and had built a strong relationship with, after the second game. When it arrived, I thought: that thing is huge. Some coaches like some players better than others and act accordingly as well. She saw our progression was going so fast that it would be possible someday that we would be full-time professional players.

[15] At the age of six, she joined ESDO from Wassenaar, where she played alongside boys.

This was a really tough decision and I was actually room-mate with Mandy so I remember it very well from her perspective which was really hard. [33] On 13 January 2017, the KNVB announced that Wiegman was installed as head coach on a permanent basis. How the 50-year-olds attention to detail and superb player management made Netherlands one of the worlds top teams.

[15], In 1988, while in China for the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament, she met USWNT head coach Anson Dorrance, who invited her to come study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and play for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team, which was actualised in 1989.

Wiegman had been the best football player in Holland and knew what she wanted to accomplish with the team. [8][10][15] Wiegman also helped the Netherlands reach the quarter-finals of the 1989, 1991 and 1993 European Championships, although they never reached the final tournament of an official World Cup or European Championship. ! recalls Stentler.

However, the team had been losing four out of five friendly matches, and morale was low.

And from then on, the defender made only two appearances as a substitute in the three knockout ties as Netherlands went on to win the tournament. [10][11] At North Carolina, Wiegman played alongside such players as Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and Carla Overbeck. She couldnt imagine that you could play your best because of that relaxed preparation. Years later, Stentler learned there was more to Wiegmans approach: a trip to America as a 19-year-old that opened her eyes to the possibilities for womens football.

When you were an unhappy bench player, somehow he made sure you still felt good about yourself..

All the other coaches in my career would say, OK, so you wont be playing the next match. On the other hand, I can imagine it can give a player a little bit of stress because no matter who you are, you can be subbed if you dont perform.

For example, if you would make a joke and she would hear half of it, she would be like, What did you say? She would really want to know whats been said, which was funny sometimes.. But she quickly saw that involving the players in setting those rules was more effective. [13] In August 2020, it was announced she would take the job of manager of the England women's national team, starting in 2021. These are the things were telling each other, the words we used then its a lot easier to be honest and to tell the hard messages to your players.. We started the warm-up and Sarina was in her thinking mode when she has a really strict and severe look in her eyes so we were so afraid. It has not always been plain sailing. It wasnt something that stayed for long. I said, I dont know, I dont have any money. The players agree it was a crucial part of helping the team qualify for the World Cup, where Wiegman led them to another first a World Cup final and qualification for the Olympics.