A Quote by Millie Bright
The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.
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When I was the coach at Mainz in the Bundesliga, a small club in Germany, we always wanted to play the big teams every two years, right after a major tournament, whether it was a World Cup or European Championships.
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