To celebrate International Women’s Day it is essential to talk about women in sport. Women in soccer. From our Selection. From our dear Alexia Putellas and company. Football and women in the past has always been a pending issue. And more in Spain. In 2022 it is no longer. Today our country boasts a great football scene, both for men and women. Barcelona is the current champion of the Champions League. The best team on the continent, and would also be the best in the world if it could be measured. Spain has the best player on the planet. Alexia Putellas has broken all the barriers that Spanish soccer players had closed to give way to a hopeful future. She has been the first, but she will not be the only one. Comrades come stomping from behind (Pebble, Aitana, Athenea, Walls) and generations that will surely be better prepared.
Of course, within all this party is Spain. La Roja is today one of the great teams on the planet. Jorge Vilda’s team has been signing great performances for years. Already in the 2019 World Cup in France he was about to surprise the United States, the best team ever. That was a turning point. Since then he has not stopped growing. He closed his pass to the European Championship in England (it should have been played in 2021, but the Covid delayed it for this summer) in a remarkable way. No defeat, clean sheet. Currently, he is in those same records in the qualifying phase for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Spain hopes to be in the World Cup event in the summer of 2022, as it has already done consecutively in the previous two: Canada 2015 and France 2019. For the moment, they lead Group B alone and have the ticket in their hands.
Ránking FIFA
These results have provided a leap in quality. Spain has broken the barrier and has entered the Top10 of the FIFA ranking. Moreover, in its latest update, the Spanish team occupies ninth place, the best in its history (sixth in UEFA). Only the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, Holland, Canada, Brazil and England are ahead. The great world powers. Little by little the Selection is climbing floors.
From invisible to luxury guest
In a few years it has gone on to be in all the important championships. Since the 2013 European Championship he has not failed in the European Championships and the same has happened in the World Cups since 2015. That has raised him to the world stage. Spain has gone from being invisible to being a luxury guest at the tournaments that take place every year on the FIFA date from February to March. He began by going to the Algarve Cup, then the Cyprus Cup, in 2020 to the SheBelieves Cup organized by the great power United States and a few days ago to the Arnold Clark Cup, the prelude to the Euro. The world powers are already measured, which is already considered La Roja by its rivals. “It’s good that we play against a team like Spain because they have developed a lot over the years. We had a plan to play against them, are a favorite next summer…” said Sarina Wiegman, England coach. One of the great women’s soccer coaches today.
license to dream
Spain is in a sweet moment, with several showcases to shine. ANDThe closest is the European Championship. In 2023 it will be the World Cup. There is a team that supports it, you can dream of achieving something great. The big teams already recognize our players. They are referents, as they never were before. “Spain’s development speaks for itself. In 2017, I found them outstanding in terms of play, but they lacked goal threat. This is different now. PFor me, it is probably the most complete team in history,” the German coach, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, acknowledged weeks ago. It’s not just anyone. Germany is the great dominator of women’s football in Europe. Now we look at it from the same prism, there are no differences. She is even thought of winning on July 12 in London.