Lionesses hero Hannah Hampton reveals incredible conversation with England fans before Chloe Kelly's decisive penalty
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Hannah Hampton was an England hero of Euro 2025
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Hampton saved two penalties in the shootout
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Chloe Kelly then scored the winning penalty
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But she revealed she missed the decisive moment Chloe Kelly
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Hampton saw
But the
She then saved again from reigning Women's Ballon d'Or winner Aitana Bonmatí to hand
Chloe
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And she duly delivered from 12 yards, blasting the ball into the top corner.
However, in all the drama of the occasion, the goalkeeping hero admitted she actually missed the moment Kelly scored the winning penalty.
Instead, the 24-year-old was trying to discover if the
Speaking to ITV, she said: "To be honest I don't really know what was going on.
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"I turned around to the fans to ask if Chloe scores do we win and they just yelled at me.
"So I don't know what the answer to that was and as soon as I saw her run off I knew that we had won."
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Hampton added to the broadcaster: "I don't think it's going to sink in for a while what we've just achieved. We're the team who never gives up and we got the reward for that today...
"It's an amazing moment and I don't think I'm going to come to terms with it for a while...
"[The best day of my life] It's up there, that's for sure. There's a lot of things I had to deal with before the tournament and a lot of the things the team helped get me through.
"Some really horrible moments. To be standing here right now as back-to-back
Euros
winner is incredible moment."
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Hampton was named as the Player of the Match for the final, with Uefa's technical team giving particular praise for her passing and brace of saves in the shootout.
This
She was thrust into the spotlight by the sudden retirement of
The Birmingham-born ace was born with a
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A trio of surgeries by the time she was three failed to solve the issue but there was no stopping our super stopper as she refused to let the condition stop her from joining Stoke City's centre of excellence.
But there was another shock in store for her when a check-up at the doctor's uncovered another issue when she was aged 11.
Hampton was told that she had a depth perception problem, which means she has difficulties with judging distances and spatial
relationships
.
Medics told her becoming a pro footballer - never mind a
GOALKEEPER
- was out of the question as they urged her to consider something different.
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But nothing could stop Hampton from achieving her dream, and tonight was exactly what dreams are made.
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