2023-08-21 05:26:44
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【2023. 8. 21 Spain/England】
Spain wins the Women’s World Cup: Breaking through the “coach’s shadow” and defeating the English Lioness 1-0
“Amidst the coaching conflict, the Spanish women’s football team rides the wind and waves to win the championship…” The Women’s World Cup champion is out! The Spanish national team defeated England 1-0 in the final of the Women’s World Cup on August 20 and won the first World Cup championship in team history. Qualified for the World Cup twice, eliminated in the group stage in 2015, and stopped in the top 16 in 2019.Before the World Cup in New Zealand and Australia in 2023, the Spanish women’s football team also had internal turmoil. In 2022 last year, the Spanish Football Association stated that it had received a joint request from 15 national team players to fire the head coach.Verda(Jorge Vilda), the reason is that Vilda “affected their emotional and health status”, the Football Association chose to support the coach, the team fell into a stalemate, and only 3 of the 15 people were recruited to participate in the World Cup. Unexpectedly, Spain is still in the shadow Down, to the top of the world.
The final of the Women’s Football World Cup was held in Sydney, Australia on August 20. Both Spain and England reached the final for the first time. In the 29th minute, captain Olga Carmona scored the only goal of the game with a diagonal shot, defeating the Lionesses of England 1-0 to win the championship.
While Spain was ecstatic with victory, England players knelt down and cried because of frustration; Spain firmly grasped the possession advantage in the first half, but England was unyielding and gradually leveled the possession rate to five or five waves in the second half, while the goalkeeper Mary Earps made several heroic saves, including a 12-yard penalty from Spanish midfielder Jennifer Hermoso, which once boosted England’s morale. Goals were scored as England attempted a change of formation while Spain brought on the two-time Ballon d’Or winner, who was unable to start due to injury, towards the end of the regular 90 minutesPutras(Alexia Putellas) to stabilize the morale of the army.
Carmona celebrating after scoring. Photo/Agence France-Presse Two-time Golden Globe winner Putras was unable to start in the best condition due to injury.Photo / Agence France-Presse
In the final 13 minutes of stoppage time, England still tried to tie the score. At the end of the stoppage time, England got a corner kick, and even Earps also gave it a go and rushed to the Spanish goal.
However, after the final corner kick was taken, it was firmly embraced by Spanish goalkeeper Cole (Cata Coll), and then the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, announcing Spain’s victory and making Spain the second-best player after Germany. , the second country to win the World Cup in both men’s and women’s football.
After winning the championship, the scoring hero Carmona learned that her long-sick father had passed away on August 18, two days before the final, and her family did not inform her in order to let her feel at ease. As a farewell to his father, Carmona wrote on social media:
“I know you’ve been watching me tonight and you’re so proud of me. Daddy, rest in peace.”
Photo/Associated Press The brave England goalkeeper Earps won the Golden Glove Award.Figure / Archyde.com
For England, which has just won the European Cup in 2022, the loss of the World Cup final is disappointing and painful. England coach Sarina Wiegman led the Lionesses to the previous World Cup in France in 2019. In the semi-finals, in the end, they only received the runner-up. This time England still failed to hope – after winning the Men’s Football World Cup in 1966, England has not been able to win the World Cup for decades. A great opportunity to hold the trophy, but still missed.
On the Spanish side, the moment of victory was unforgettable for many fans, and the joy was also full of surprises. First of all, the awkward relationship between the head coach Verda and the players made the Spanish national team fall into a haze before the game. In September 2022, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) claimed that 15 members of the women’s football team threatened to withdraw from the national team and asked Verda to step down because it believed that Verda affected their “emotional state and health.” Members of the national team denied calls for Verda to be sacked, but also expressed doubts about the training methods under Verda’s command and believed that the national team was insufficiently prepared for the game.
RFEF chose to support Verda, saying that it would not allow players to question the extension of the national team coach’s tenure, and said that refusing to play for the national team was a “serious violation”, and said that the 15 players would not be recruited to play in the World Cup; only 3 people were selected after that The squad for the World Cup in New Zealand and Australia-this also allows 17 of the 23 players in the Spanish national team to play in the World Cup for the first time, including goalkeeper Cole.
At that time, Putras, who was absent from the European Cup due to anterior cruciate ligament injury, was not among the 15 people who made a joint request, but he also expressed his support for his teammates on social media; Recovered and participated in the battle, but her state has not fully recovered. Although she is in the team, it is equivalent to reassuring her teammates, but it also adds a shadow of uncertainty to Spain.
Photo/Archyde.com Photo/Agence France-Presse Spanish women’s football team coach Verda.Figure / Archyde.com
Although the joy of winning the championship came, the conflict between Verda and the team did not seem to fade away. Although the two sides tried their best to cooperate and adjust during the game, Verda and the coaching staff obviously did not participate in the knockout stage when Spain won. The players celebrated on the field, and whenever the camera caught Verda, fans booed and laughed.
Secondly, although Spain is a well-known football country and football fever pervades the whole country, this enthusiasm has been limited to men’s football for many years, and the performance of women’s football in the past is hardly ideal. In addition, this year, the Spanish women’s football team has only qualified for the World Cup three times, the best. The best result is that they stopped at the top 16 in 2019 and were still at the bottom of the group stage in 2015; their best result in the international competition was only the top 8 in the European Cup, but the victory of the women’s football team this time may be expected to become an opportunity for change.
Queen Letizia of Spain and her daughter Princess Sofia also attended the final. It is worth mentioning that Princess Sofia also played football.
After the game, the Spanish national team still encountered another storm. When RFEF President Luis Rubiales congratulated the women’s football players on the awards stage after the game, he grabbed Hermoso’s head while embracing her. Kissed her on the mouth, which immediately triggered criticism from the Internet, and Hermoso also expressed displeasure with the matter on Instagram afterwards, and said: “But what else can I do?” (“But what am I supposed to do?”)
When Rubiarez was interviewed by the Spanish media, he called the critics “idiots” (There are idiots all over.) and believed that the matter was irrelevant, as long as Spain won the World Cup.
Text / Lai Yun
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