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England captain Steph Houghton
backs team to shine at Women’s World Cup
Steph
Houghton has vowed England will rise to the big occasion at the Women’s World
Cup in Canada as the team prepare to face the United States in Milton Keynes on
Friday night.
Houghton,
who captains Manchester City Women and her country, has seen her profile soar
since being handed the England armband last year. Her biggest test awaits in
Canada in June, when England will attempt to venture further in a World Cup than
ever before, having stalled three times previously in the quarter-finals.
Despite
losing 3-0 to Germany at Wembley in November Houghton is confident England can
give USA, twice World Cup winners, a serious game. “There’s definitely a buzz
about the camp. There is competition for World Cup spots but we’ve got a really
important fixture on Friday and we want to go and perform well as a team,”
Houghton said.
As a
teenager, Houghton suffered World Cup heartbreak when injury ruled her out of
the 2007 tournament. She was in the squad as a fringe figure four years ago in
Germany but this time, as she approaches her 27th birthday in April, the
centre-back is the leader and best-known face in Mark Sampson’s team.
“It’s a massive year for everyone
involved,” Houghton said. “It’s going to be a massive honour to represent your
country, if selected, for the World Cup. To captain this side, which is full of
great individuals with the potential to be a great team, I’m delighted to be
involved and delighted to be involved in a World Cup year.”
With such
great power as that with which Houghton has been entrusted comes great
responsibility, and it would be abnormal were she not feeling a little pressure.
“Yes of course but that’s what comes with international football,” she said.
“You have a lot of pressure and when you reach major tournaments like World Cups
it’s going to be like that. You’re going to want to do your country proud, and
the fact the focus is on the women’s team now is a good pressure to have, and
one that I suppose we’ll thrive upon and try to perform when we’re over there.”
First comes
the American test, with the world’s No2 side coming off the back of a weekend
defeat to France. “It’s a great opportunity for us to play against one of the
best teams in the world,” Houghton said. “They have players that can win games
by themselves and we want to be playing against these teams. We could easily
play a low-ranked team and win six or seven nil but realistically we need to be
playing against the best.”
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/12/steph-houghton-england-women-world-cup