Sarina Wiegman, who has to be among the world’s foremost practitioners of pragmatism, has steered England to the World Cup final, where it will face Spain.
. After England held it together for a 1-0 win because that’s what England does anymore, a reporter asked Wiegman about how she had “consoled” the team afterward.“I’m sorry, I don’t know what ‘console’ means,” she said, apparently referring to the context.Spain’s tumultuous road to the World Cup final, explained
“No, we were not upset,” Wiegman said, “we just had to find our feet. Of course, it’s not nice when a player goes off the pitch that way [by stretcher]. But we also know, unfortunately, that these things happen sometimes in football — you just have to move on — and you’re at the World Cup, and you want to win that game, so we really have to adapt to a new situation as quickly as possible, so that’s what we did.
Wiegman agreed about the sportswomanship but said, perhaps surprisingly, “That happens sometimes with human beings,” especially “in such an intense game,” and, “I think she agrees that, too, that it doesn’t belong on the pitch.”Like the best coaches, she seems capable of mingling the rigorous with the charitable. As Postma wrote in 2020, Wiegman followed a Euro qualifying group loss to Denmark in 2017 by flying to England and Spain to visit, speak with and consult some of her Dutch players.
“Yeah, I’ve never experienced so many problems,” she concluded on that Nigeria night that made her feel “10 years older.” “But of course, that’s my job, to think of things that can happen in the game, or in a tournament, or ahead of the tournament, so you try — actually, you try to turn every stone and then try to already think of a solution if things happen. So today, we got totally tested on those turned stones.
They passed that test on penalties that night, in part because they had turned over that stone, too, over and over again. They sailed the turbulent waters from there. They, after all, have a manager tireless in life’s field of stones.
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