With Renee at the helm and Daphne and Victoria among the best Dutch players in the WSL, there’s a huge sense of pride in the Netherlands, Pien adds.
“Whenever there's Dutch players or Dutch managers that come over to England and they are working closely with a lot of the players that are English players, it's always nice to see them having the success,” she said. “There's a long list of really talented Dutch players that have come to the WSL and it's really nice to see that they are sort of developing that squad. It'll be interesting to see how the Netherlands do in the Euros.
“But it's the same thing with Sarina going over to England, becoming the England manager. Even though England and the Netherlands are going to be playing each other, it's still one of those things where I'm sure a lot of the Dutch fans will still feel a lot of pride also for Sarina, but definitely for the girls that are playing, Daphne and Victoria.”
Pien is no stranger to covering our women’s team, having worked at plenty of our games for Sky in recent seasons.
“I particularly enjoy doing the north London derby,” she said. “I always think they get a good turnout, so that's always fun to see. And do you know what? I think especially doing games at the Emirates and seeing how much the Arsenal fans fill out the stadium is brilliant. You guys have got fantastic fans and I'm sure they will all be getting behind all of the players that are playing in the Euros in the next couple of weeks.
“I'm sure that the players are really happy as well that they're sort of leading the way with that in terms of the amount of fans that they do get going to stadiums and games.
“As for the Euros, I'm flying out on Wednesday. I'm going to do the group stage games. No England games, but I've got Netherlands against France, so that will be a very interesting game. I think I'm visiting about five or six different places in Switzerland in the space of about two weeks, so I'm very much looking forward to it.”