Bristol City women's manager Lauren Smith was inside Wembley Stadium to see the Lionesses create footballing history and end England's 56-year wait for silverware.
In a day that will go down in the history books, goals from Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly have put the women's game on a new pedestal and the time for acting on their success to continue raising the reputation and building a platform is now.
Thousands of young girls and boys across the country will be inspired by what they witnessed at Wembley on Sunday and throughout the tournament with 87,000 people inside the home of football helping roar the Lionesses to success even as fatigue kicked in heading into extra-time.
Here's how Smith summarised the day including what impact it can have on the women's game overall and those youngsters who were thinking of taking up football...
I've never witnessed sport or football just like that. It was unbelievable, all of it. I woke up this morning with Sweet Caroline ringing in my ears.
It started when you got off the train about five hours before kick-off and you're walking down Wembley way and from that point it felt electric, the excitement of it.
The families around the smiles on their faces and the game itself from a footballing point of view were two very, very good teams who played excellent football throughout the tournament.
It did feel like when the German star striker got injured in the warm-up, things were aligning up even more for England. From that point, it was a bit of a relief that we didn't have to deal with Alexandra Popp.
When those goals went in, especially Ella Troone's, she's taken it brilliantly. Being able to lift it over the keeper in such a pressured situation with the defender on her and being able to pull that out in front of the crowd.
It was such a big moment in the game to put the team ahead but also to get your toe on something in a goal-line scramble to win it, is just as important. So it doesn't really matter how it goes in.
You've seen the pictures this morning (of Chloe Kelly's celebration) and someone has the money shot where you can see her shirt name, I think that's something that we will see for years to come. That moment of her celebrating and running around, you can also imagine little boys and girls in the park doing exactly the same thing and recreating that, that's what it's all about and making sure that people have now fallen in love with the game and stayed in love with it.
From technique to belief, and confidence in the team you have to look at the whole thing and what Sarina Wiegman has done as a manager in less than 12 months is something that I don't know has ever been done before. I think it's excellent.
Everyone stayed in the stadium afterwards to see them lift the trophy and do the walk around the pitch so it was tens of thousands in there even an hour after the full-time whistle and again walking down Wembley way, it was a party atmosphere, walking around, singing Sweet Caroline. I hung around Wembley for a while and the after party was excellent, the music - everyone was just celebrating football.
I was at Bristol City as a coach when Lauren (Hemp) joined us in the academy and it's been great to see her development and get those opportunities to play at the highest level. I've come up against her a couple of times for different clubs and she is just phenomenal, her attitude and how she is as a person and how hard she works.
Watching her at the end of the game, how she's sat there on the floor dancing with the other players I thought, 'yea, you really deserve this'. I think (former City player) Mary Earps has had a great tournament and made a difference. She pulled it out of the bag when she needed to, especially in the semi-finals. For those two I'm so pleased for them and I'm glad they got to be in that situation and enjoy it. Hopefully, they'll be more one day.
We've still got some players in the team who played alongside Mary and Lauren so they'll be looking at thinking these players have gone on and pushed forward knowing that they have been part of that is exciting. We've got some great young talent in the club who will be looking at them thinking that's the pathway we want to take and we want to do that as much as we can as Bristol City and get players playing for our first-team and then beyond that if they exceed that challenge.
From a club-based situation, we have to go off the back of this and the excitement. People will want to watch more women's football and we need to jump straight on that to get people through the doors so they can see that the quality is not just at the top level in the Euros final.
It's probably down the road at your local women's team and playing in the Championship, come and watch us and you'll see that we have a great atmosphere, the players are great technically, they work hard and they work for each other and I think we can build our attendances and make sure people stay in love with the game.
I think schools have been the hardest place to change that culture. Hopefully, off the back of this, schools and PE teachers will change the curriculum and opportunities for girls but as well as that, parents take their girls to football training. It doesn't have to be a girls club, it's a football club and I'm pretty sure everyone will open their doors and welcome players to their clubs. It's schools, clubs and parents getting involved and hopefully, we will see a rise in numbers and then more people will want to wear that Lionnesses shirt one day.
Bristol City women kick-off their Championship campaign away at Coventry on August 21 with their first home match at the High Performance Centre on August 28 against Blackburn. Tickets can be bought here.
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