Hampton aiming to live up to ´unbelievable´ Earps´ England legacy - Soccer News

[ad_1] Hannah Hampton has vowed to dwell as much as Mary Earps’ England legacy as she prepares to be the Lionesses primary on the upcoming European Championships.

Earps introduced her shock choice to stroll away from worldwide responsibility final month, having helped England win Euro 2022 and main them to the World Cup last a 12 months later.

She performs her soccer in France with Paris Saint-Germain, and earned 53 caps for her nation, whereas additionally successful the Finest FIFA Goalkeeper award in successive years.

Nonetheless, the 32-year-old has misplaced her beginning place to Chelsea’s Hampton, who wore the primary shirt in every of England’s final three fixtures earlier than Earps’ retirement.

Hampton loved a stellar season for Sonia Bompastor’s Blues, preserving a division-high 13 clear sheets (degree with Phallon Tullis-Joyce) within the Girls’s Tremendous League final 12 months.

She additionally conceded simply 13 objectives, the bottom within the division of goalkeepers to play a minimal of 16 video games within the WSL in 2024-25.

“We've to clearly respect what her choice is,” Hampton stated of Earps.

“I feel there’s been fairly a little bit of scrutiny that she in all probability doesn’t deserve with the whole lot she’s achieved within the recreation.

“She put ladies’s goalkeeping on the map for the youthful era. It was by no means actually a factor, and Mary’s modified that.

“I feel I’ve carried out the whole lot I have to do. I’ve despatched her a textual content and I congratulated her on a really profitable worldwide profession and I feel that’s all I actually can do.

“She’s been an unbelievable participant. We’re gonna miss her as an individual right here. She’s a giant character on this group and he or she glued us all collectively at occasions once we wanted to.

“So, I feel it’s been tough for everybody to return to phrases with what her choice is, however we have now to respect that.

“And yeah, now I’ve received to only go and dwell as much as her legacy. I’ll give it my greatest shot for certain.”

Hampton is now England’s solely capped goalkeeper within the squad, with Khiara Keating and Anna Moorhouse the opposite two keepers going to the Euros.

“I’m going to be making an attempt my very best to fill the gloves of the keepers [who came] earlier than and the success they’ve had,” Hampton added.

“I feel like everybody right here, they’ve had ups and downs of their careers.

“They’ve fought out of that to be within the place they're right this moment and I’m in all probability one among them, however it’s no completely different to anybody else right here.

“There have been moments when everybody [in the squad] has in all probability thought they have been in a tricky place, however you get one another out of it.”