By Jack Gray and Manish Pandey
Newsbeat newshounds
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The stress of an world soccer match is mountainous, however staring at your daughter play in a single is additionally quite nerve-shredding.
That’s how Amanda Williamson, mother of England captain Leah, feels.
“With my hand on my coronary heart, it’s not in fact fundamental what game it is, I fight to enjoy, I’m in fact worried and was light,” she says.
But she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat that seeing each person acquire pleasure from England’s success brings “that puny bit of pleasure”.
“The noise in the stadiums has been amazing. You are going to have the choice to’t hear your self mediate. So we correct hope that continues,” she says.
The Lionesses shall be competing of their fourth successive match semi-top when they face Sweden later, hoping to reach a fundamental top for the first time since 2009.
The least bit times a main
For quite rather a lot of, Leah Williamson has was the face of England females’s soccer.
Pondering her lack of fundamental match journey, her appointment as captain for this summer season’s European Championship might perhaps have raised eyebrows.
But England manager Sarina Wiegman calls her a “broad chief” and, for Leah’s mum, it got right here as no surprise.
Amanda says Leah, now 25 years feeble, has “constantly been a main, even from a young age”.
“She’s constantly been the one to organise issues and constantly been light so I don’t mediate she’s changed at all. That’s correct the method Leah is,” she says.
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Represent caption, “I’m deal surprised every time I force past a bus cease and it be her face me”
Amanda shows on the family’s time out to the Euros in 2017 and says it be “a surreal 2d” to ogle Leah now leading England out on to the pitch.
It became once a gradual winner in extra-time which sealed England’s space in the semi-top.
“You are thinking: ‘I am unable to take care of penalties,’ however additionally the girls aren’t able to switch dwelling.”
But she says Leah’s brother Jacob has it noteworthy worse by design of nerves, with “his head in his fingers, making an strive down and fingers in ears so he couldn’t hear anything”.
It has been a myth-breaking Euros in phrases of viewing figures, with a height tv viewers of seven.6 million staring at England’s dramatic quarter-top set up over Spain.
And Amanda hopes the hype across the females’s game will set up it up for years to return.
“We lag the streets in direction of the games and of us peek the names on the encourage of our shirts,” she says.
“All people is forever correct shouting ‘factual luck to the Williamsons’. Every lady is getting so noteworthy make stronger, so we correct hope that continues.”
Media caption, Radio 1 Newsbeat teamed up with Leah Williamson and the FA to acquire a selected message to most cancers affected person Laura
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