Gareth Southgate was the first man to take England to a major final on foreign soil, but also the first manager in Euros history to lose two finals
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00:00The last finals, yeah, it's the first European Championship final I've ever managed.
00:09They can see what it's meant to the whole country tonight,
00:12and what it's meant to the fans in the stadium.
00:14I've never known the new Wembley like this.
00:16This is once in a generation, we may never see it again.
00:18It's coming home boys, it's coming home!
00:20The Italians are running scant.
00:22It's going to be a special day, but of course there's going to be a winner and a loser,
00:26so we've got to make sure we're on that winning side.
00:30It's coming home!
00:34You bring out the very best of England and we are all behind you, the whole country is behind you.
00:38We're in a final and we're here to win.
00:41Now we want to go and bring the trophy home for everybody.
00:43The new Wembley, when we started three, four years ago,
00:47we had people throwing paper aeroplanes, they weren't behind the team.
00:50Now the energy in the stadium is fantastic and that's so important for the players.
01:00Come on!
01:06We didn't try and win the game. We went 1-0 up and we didn't try and win the game.
01:19It's anybody's game, do you know what I mean?
01:21The penalty takers are my call, we've worked on them in training.
01:25Tonight it hasn't gone for us.
01:27You bring them on at the end to take the penalties and they haven't kicked a football.
01:30It's like the history of England sometimes seems to be losing on penalties.
01:33He's not on his own, he's such a super boy.
01:39We wanted to give everybody one more night that would continue the biggest party ever.
01:43We haven't been able to do that, but I hope that we've given everybody some incredible memories
01:49and the players especially should feel very proud of what they've done.
01:57If I didn't get everything right, apologies for that, but we'll try and do better this week.
02:02A second final in two tournaments is incredible really.
02:07They've played 14 matches in the last European Championship.
02:11We've lost in the last five minutes of the 14th game.
02:15We weren't beaten other than in penalties in that period.
02:18It's an incredible run.
02:20None of that matters because we had an opportunity to win and we haven't been able to take it.
02:27END CREDITS