White scored a hat-trick to end the tournament with six goals but it was not enough to secure a semi-final spotThe sign outside the ground read “The Dream Box”, but the Ibaraki Kashima Stadium was more the scene of a nightmare for Great Britain as a place in the semi-final slipped from their hands in extra time of the Olympic quarter-final against Australia. Hege Riise, the GB head coach, said the team were “devastated” and that it was hard to accept their pursuit of a first Olympic football medal for Britain’s women — and first for any British team since 1912 — was over. Ellen White, who scored a superb hat-trick, said she would trade every one of her six goals at these Games for a gold medal. SponsoredThe Australia striker Sam Kerr, well-known to British football fans for her goals at Chelsea, had flown

Source: The Times July 30, 2021 12:13 UTC