The UK was hit hard ahead of the European Championship this summer after a major member of the winning side of Euro 2022 announced her international retirement.<\/p>\n
Just a few weeks before Lioness headed for Switzerland, Mary Earps confirmed that she no longer represents her country.<\/p>\n
It was only last year that the stopper penalty hero in the final against Spain lived on the game, but now it’s time for change.<\/p>\n
The Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, who left Manchester United last year, continues to play club football, revealed that he felt the time was right. “Go aside.”<\/strong><\/p>\n “It was the greatest honor and privilege of my life to wear this badge, represent my country and play with such an incredible group of players.”<\/strong> She said in a statement via inglandfootball.com.<\/p>\n “I spent a lot of time making this decision, but that’s not something I underestimated. For me, this is the right time to ultimately stand aside and give the younger generation the opportunity to succeed.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Her announcement was caught by many surprises — including director Sarina Wigman, who she admitted to be. “It was a shame”<\/strong> Due to the timing and loss of a player who was once voted as the best goalkeeper in the world.<\/p>\n “I was hoping that Mary would play an important role within the team this summer.”<\/strong> The Dutch boss said.<\/p>\n “She made a big contribution not only to the team but also to the overall British football.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Wiegman added that Earps was like that. “Clearly her reasons.”<\/strong> And what the group needs to do now “accept”<\/strong> Her decisions and advances.<\/p>\n With the coach being touted as a potential candidate for Thomas Touchel’s current role in the male side, her position in the game means that a positive conclusion to this conundrum will likely be found quite quickly.<\/p>\n The FA confirmed that a full homage will be paid to the 32-year-old later this year, following the end of the summer tournament.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UK was hit hard ahead of the European Championship this summer after a major member of the winning side of Euro 2022 announced her international retirement. Just a few weeks before Lioness headed for Switzerland, Mary Earps confirmed that she no longer represents her country. It was only last year that the stopper penalty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-4930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mary Earps shocked everyone with her retirement<\/h2>\n