England's Euro 2022 final match-winner Chloe Kelly has told talkSPORT she fulfilled TWO childhood dreams by scoring the crucial goal against Germany.
Football finally came home on Sunday as the Lionesses overcame the Germans in a fiercely contested final to become European champions.
Kelly sparked pandemonium at a sold-out Wembley Stadium as she scored the goal that made England Women's European champions
And Man City ace Kelly was the one who brought it home, scoring the winner just like her childhood idol, Bobby Zamora.
Not a bad way to score your first ever international goal...
An Ealing girl, it was a dream come true for Kelly to run out onto the Wembley pitch in a major tournament final after spending her childhood in awe of the Home of Football.
As a young child, Kelly used to hop on a bus to Wembley on FA Cup final day every year just to buy a programme, before returning home to watch the match.
She told talkSPORT's Faye Carruthers after Sunday's triumphant final: "Well, QPR never got here!"
Eventually, though, they did, and Kelly was in the crowd as her beloved Rangers sealed promotion to the Premier League in the most dramatic fashion - Zamora netting in the last minute to claim a 1-0 victory over Derby County in 2014.
Kelly's effort sealed European glory for England. What a fairytale!
Just as Zamora fired QPR to play-off final victory at Wembley in 2014
Kelly was 16 at the time, but fast-forward just eight years and it was her celebrating a late winner at a sold-out Wembley, as she fired England to Women's Euro glory.
And at the same end of the stadium, too!
"I said to my family, the one moment that I've been to Wembley and it's been brilliant - it's the Bobby Zamora moment with QPR," Kelly said.
"I said to my family this morning, imagine we get a Bobby Zamora moment and it's me… and now it's happened!
"Bloody hell! Unbelievable! This is what dreams are made of!"
Kelly emulated her QPR hero Zamora with her extra-time winner in the Women's Euro final
What a fairy tale!
But Kelly was celebrating more than just that goal - and her personal joy of emulating her QPR hero - in that moment, as she sprinted away and tore off her shirt with the famous London stadium in pandemonium.
"It's about every minute in this tournament, the hard work the girls have put in in the pre-camps, every bit of work everyone in the background has done to get us here today, it doesn't go unnoticed," she added.
"And the fans as well, they were unbelievable.
"And yeah I took my shirt off, I enjoyed every moment of being out there at Wembley, I embraced it all!
"You live for these moments as a little girl, and that little girl today enjoyed every moment of that."
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