Anna Moorhouse: ?England?s Euro 2025 win put my heart rate through the roof?

Lionesses? third-choice goalkeeper on helping Hannah Hampton prepare for penalties and her stress-free NWSL life at Orlando Pride
?We were like: ?If Chloe scores this, we win, right? Wait a second ? this is it!?? That is what went through Anna Moorhouse?s mind as she stood alongside her teammates while Chloe Kelly stepped up to take England?s decisive penalty in the Euro 2025 final. Suddenly it was ?just running and pure emotion? for the goalkeeper and her fellow substitutes. Moorhouse was the third-fastest to reach Kelly in the ensuing sprint, after Esme Morgan and Maya Le Tissier.
The delirious celebrations continued all the way to the Mall in London two days later but by Wednesday that week Moorhouse had landed back in Florida to rejoin Orlando Pride and play a National Women?s Soccer League fixture on Sunday. The 30-year-old says she slept for the whole of her transatlantic flight before receiving a joyous welcome from her teammates at the club, where she was soon signing a contract extension to stay with the defending NWSL champions until the end of 2027.
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