{"id":10572,"date":"2021-07-11T13:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=124402"},"modified":"2021-07-11T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:44:29","slug":"queen-elizabeth-wishes-england-team-good-luck-for-euro-2020-final-against-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/queen-elizabeth-wishes-england-team-good-luck-for-euro-2020-final-against-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth wishes England team good luck for Euro 2020 final against Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday\u2019s Euro 2020 final featuring England and Italy is expected to be watched by the entire country, including the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s team received good luck messages from Queen Elizabeth and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the Euro 2020 final against Italy on Sunday. The Queen wished England manager Gareth Southgate the best of luck before England\u2019s first-ever Euros semifinal on Saturday, which will take place at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium. There is expected to be a crowd of 65,000.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Moore, captain of England, received the World Cup from the queen when the Three Lions won their only major trophy against West Germany at Wembley in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-five years ago I was fortunate to present the World Cup to Bobby Moore and saw what it meant to the players, management and support staff to reach and win the final of a major international football tournament,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>With England on the cusp of a historic triumph, the monarch added: \u201cI want to send my congratulations and that of my family to you all on reaching the final of the European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI send my good wishes for tomorrow with the hope that history will record not only your success but also the spirit, commitment and pride with which you have conducted yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI send my good wishes for tomorrow with the hope that history will record not only your success but also the spirit, commitment and pride with which you have conducted yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A message from Her Majesty The Queen to Gareth Southgate & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/England?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@England<\/a> ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> Final. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uFX2O38kxi\">pic.twitter.com\/uFX2O38kxi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyalFamily\/status\/1413914297198071812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The English stars, meanwhile, were praised by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for lifting the nation\u2019s spirits by reaching the final. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Johnson said England\u2019s success has been a welcome boost after a tough year dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate\u2019s side has reached the European Championship title match for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1266,1722,1946,1727,1764,719,400,2284,34,1656,2285,43,1768,1767,340],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-boris-johnson","tag-euro-2020","tag-european-championships","tag-euros","tag-gareth-southgate","tag-harry-kane","tag-london","tag-prime-minister-boris-johnson","tag-queen","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-three-lions","tag-uk","tag-wembley","tag-wembley-stadium","tag-world-cup"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}