England won the third place match at the Women's World cup in Canada Saturday afternoon after Fara Williams scored a controversial penalty kick in extra-time to defeat the Germans 1-0 in Edmonton, Alberta. The game was not as fluent as both teams looked sapped out which displayed how much the tournament had taken out of both teams, and the penalty call was deeply dubious at best.
But the English women national team, who had never before won a medal at a Women's World Cup won bronze against the World No. 1 ranked female side Germany. For them, it is an achievement that will rank up there with the men's victory in 1966 and the Three Lions' fourth-place outing in 1990. Indeed, it is England's second-best ever showing at a World Cup.
"This is the team we wanted to be," coach Mark Sampson said. "We wanted to show the nation that, look, we can be knocked down, but we can also get back up. And that's what we did."
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