From amateurs to defending champions: ‘We really put women’s football on the map in 2009’ | Football

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UTRECHT – The Dutch football women will travel next Tuesday as title defenders – and with their own plane – to Manchester, where the European Championship starts a day later. In 2009, barely thirteen years ago, the Orange Lionesses were preparing for their first official final tournament ever and everything was different. A look back with Anouk Hoogendijk, who laid the foundation for the success of the current Golden Generation with a historic penalty. “This was the beginning.”

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