Football didn't come home when Gareth Southgate's England fell at the final hurdle against Italy in EURO 2020 - but Hege Riise's Team GB could get the job done at the Olympic Games.
The Olympics is a much bigger deal for women's football than it is for men's - you'll see plenty of faces you recognise as full international squads turn out to represent their country.
Manchester City have Janine Beckie playing for Canada; Manchester United have Jackie Groenen playing for Netherlands - and of course both sides of the city will be more than familiar with the Americans Tobin Heath, Christen Press, Ross Lavelle and Abby Dahlkemper.
Team GB is a hybrid squad - nine years after they first turned out at London 2012, they have the chance to do it once more. This time under the temporary reign of Norwegian Riise - following Phil Neville's impromptu departure - they will be looking to take home the gold. City have nine representatives in the 22-player squad – ten if you include Jill Scott, who spent the second half of last season at Everton - with United contributing one.
Riise has put together her squad from all the home nations, although it's dominated by England, who were the team who secured qualification. Pleasingly, she is also sharing the captaincy around the trio of skippers she has in her side – Manchester City and England's Steph Houghton, Wales's Sophie Ingle, and Scotland's vice-captain Kim Little.
There are players in this squad who have won the FA Women's Super League, of course - but there are also players who have won the UEFA Women's Champions League, such as FIFA The Best Player of the Year for 2020 Lucy Bronze, who won it with Lyon. This squad knows what it takes to win at the highest level, and they're used to the pressure of big occasions now.
If you wanted Southgate's Lions to win because of their off-the-pitch conduct and evident principles, Riise's Team GB should appeal to you as well. They're taking the knee before each game as a matter of solidarity. More than that, they know that the Games organisers are prohibiting the official accounts from sharing images of their protest - so they're making sure they are posting it as widely as possible on their own accounts.
And their work in the community might not be as high profile as their male counterparts' but it's still important - Houghton, for example, works tirelessly as a patron for the Darby Rimmer Motor Neurone Disease Foundation, the charity set up by her husband Stephen Darby, who retired from professional football after his MND diagnosis.
There are players who may be playing their last high-profile tournament.
Sunderland-born Scott, now 34, switched back to her former club Everton on loan last season in an effort to get the game time she wasn't receiving at Manchester City and play herself into contention for the Olympics. It worked perfectly.
Then there’s Ellen White, at the age of 32, when a striker could be forgiven for slowing down, is hitting a real purple patch. She scored a hat-trick against Northern Ireland when England returned to the field in 2021, and then a brace in Team GB's warm-up against New Zealand ahead of her two against Chile in the first group game. If the Manchester City striker can stay fit, she may finally pick up the international winners' medal she's been seeking for so long.
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And there are some up-and-coming stars who will be raring to go.
There's Manchester United's Ella Toone, aged 21, who made her senior international debut less than a year ago after averaging almost a goal a game for her club since signing in 2018. Across the city from her is Lauren Hemp, aged 20, one of the most exciting young players in the world; she was named in the starting line-up against Chile and showed no fear at all as she made her bow at the Games.
That nerve will be needed on Friday when Team GB head into the quarter-finals with a tough encounter against the Matildas. If they win and reach the last four, they’ve already done better than the inaugural squad did in 2012. And then – whisper it – it could be time to think about football coming home this summer after all.
