Milli Turner Expresses Delight In England’s Call-up

Manchester United defender Millie Turner has expressed her excitement upon being called up to the Lionesses team for the first time under Coach Sarina Weigman. Turner has not yet made her senior debut for the Lionesses, but Sarina Wiegman has called her up for the team’s Nations League matches against both Scotland and the Netherlands. She joins other Manchester United players like Mary Earps, Ella Toone, Katie Zelem and Maya Le Tissier in the England squad.

This isn’t the first time the 27-year old was called to the national team as former bosses Hege Riise and Phil Neville invited the defender. But she couldn’t get a minute during those spell with the Lionesses.

Turner was called up after contributing significantly to United’s success thus far this season, having started in all the eight games for the Club. Meanwhile, she pulled a fantastic one to score her first goal of the year against West Ham early November. She was then announced as the stand-in captain since Millie Bright’s forced withdrawal as a result of a knee injury.

Turner told reporters: “Honestly I think my neighbours at the start hated me because I was jumping around my house! I just remember my dad saying ‘Millie I’m so proud of you’ and he said that he had a feeling to be honest that I’d be called into this camp, so I think he’s been talking it into reality.”

“They are all very excited to come down. It’s going to be such a special day for me and my family. They are all going to try and get down. I think there are about six of them coming. So, yes it’s going to be a really, really good day.”

Turner will be eager to earn her first cap in the upcoming week as the Lionesses prepare for crucial Nations League matches. If Wiegman’s team is to have any chance of topping their group, they must defeat Scotland and the Netherlands.