Memorable moment: Kelly’s kiss

As a universe of football depends down to a exhibit of the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ official button and aphorism – in Paris on 19 Sep – we are counting down a 10 Most Memorable Moments in FIFA Women’s World Cup history.

The background
Having not seemed during a Women’s World Cup for 12 years, England trafficked to China in 2007 with a clever enterprise to make adult for mislaid time, carrying under-performed dual years progressing in a UEFA Women’s Championship on home soil. However, entrance adult opposite a Japan side on a rise, and a strife with Germany to come, a vigour was on.

Why so special?
Having depressed behind to an Aya Miyama free-kick only after a break, with 10 mins remaining England looked set to pull a vacant in their opener. Enter Kelly Smith. A neat turn, and a bit of luck, following Karen Carney’s pass saw a Arsenal striker container England turn with a left-footed effort, celebrating by planting a lick on a foot that practical a finishing touch. Three mins after she converted with her right and both boots came off. Although another Miyama free-kick leveled things adult late on, Smith’s double helped propel a Lionesses towards a quarter-finals.

What she said
“I had about a second to score. No more. Suddenly, my mind was on fire. ‘This is it! Just do it!’ And we did it. we placed a round coolly into a bottom left-hand dilemma of a net. My mind went blank. It was a flattering overjoyed impulse for me. ‘Oh my God!’ we had only scored my fist ever thought in a World Cup finals and we unequivocally didn’t know what to do or how to feel. we was not prepared for it to be like this. we simply had no thought how to applaud a goal. Filled with exhilaration and pride, and but thinking, we took my left foot off and kissed it.”

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