Spain is the new women’s soccer world champion. The team beat England 1-0 in the last match played in Sydney, Australia. The only goal of the game was scored in the 29th minute by Real Madrid defender Olga Carmona.
A goal from Olga Carmona, in the 29th minute, was enough for the Spanish to defeat England and win their first World Cup in their third participation in the competition, after having lost in the group stage in 2015 and in the round of 16 in 2019 . .
In the second part, Jennifer Hermoso still missed a penalty from La Roja.
England, current European champions, also achieved their best participation in a World Cup, since they had never reached the final, having finished third in 2015 and fourth in 2019.
This is a historic title. It is the first time that Spain has won a women’s soccer world cup, succeeding its American counterpart.
Spain is also the second country in the world, after Germany, to win a men’s and women’s soccer world title.
The Spanish coach does not hide the pride he feels and stresses that Spain “knew how to play and suffer”
“I am very proud of this team. I am very happy that everyone in Spain sees us. We show how we can play and how we know how to suffer. This team believed and we are world champions. Now what we want is to celebrate,” he said.
The final place on the 2023 World Cup podium went to Sweden, which beat hosts Australia 2-0 on Saturday in the match for third and fourth place.
Isabel Osório, football commentator who followed the TSF the women’s World Cup matches, explains this Sunday’s victory with a simple formula: “Believe”.
“The secret […] is to give the same opportunities -whether men or women- in society, in sports professions and the secret is this: it is to believe, provide conditions and from a very young age allow soccer to be a possible practice for girls, to educate parents – the school is very important in this,” he points out, in statements to the TSF.
The commentator also considers that this championship brought a “new look” to what is, after all, women’s football.
“Given the influx of people in the stadiums and the absurd number of people who watched it on television, in their homes -Portugal-USA was one of those cases with many people watching it in their homes-, I think that the greater visibility After this World Cup, the work that FIFA has done to add more teams to the World Cup, I think it will bring a new look at what soccer is played by women”, she defends.
In Portugal, the commentator does not expect the impact to be felt “immediately”.
“I think that the work that the federations, associations and clubs have been doing in favor of Portuguese women’s football has been a positive, gradual work and I think that this will be the growth”, he says, before adding that the Portuguese participation in the World Cup brought ” more visibility to Portuguese football”.
“But it has to be continuous, that is, we have to go to the final stages of the Europeans, the World Cups. The growth will not be as great as in Australia or in other more developed countries in the world, ”she reiterates. .
Source: TSF
