New year or opportunity. Spanish women’s football faces this 2022 with the desire to continue linking historical moments. Booming, after milestones such as the Alexia Putellas Ballon d’Or, this category has great purposes and hopes for this new year. One of the most anticipated moments will be the European Championship, which will be played from July 7 to 31 with great anticipation.
The great continental tournament awaits a great reception on English soil, where women’s football hopes to continue demonstrating its potential as it already did at the World Cup in France in 2019. In addition to this, this appointment is received with great enthusiasm in the Spanish National Team, which arrives as one of the favorites for the title. La Roja has been unstoppable in 2021, the year in which it has won everything. Those of Jorge Vilda have in their ranks Alexia Putellas and Jenni Hermoso, Ballon d’Or and Silver, respectively, and a large number of players of international character, such as Paños, Paredes, Aitana Bonmatí or Esther González.
We won’t have to wait until July to experience a historic moment in Spanish women’s football. This category will experience its first Real Madrid-Barça in the Champions League with a cross between both teams in the quarterfinals. The first leg will be played at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium on March 22 at 9:00 p.m., with the return at the Johan Cruyff in Barcelona on March 30 at 6:45 p.m. The duel, to which the Catalans arrive as favorites being the current European champions, will monopolize the spotlight and give visibility Through DAZN, a channel that broadcasts the entire women’s Champions League openly on YouTube.
In the Champions League, where Barça stands out as a great candidate for the title, there are many illusions overturned. The Barça team was unrivaled in the group stage and proved intractable in the first stage of the Primera Iberdrola (15 out of 15 possible victories). Reasons why it is the great team to beat in this edition of the top European competition. From the Champions to the Cup or the Spanish Super Cup, which has not yet defined a venue despite being played from January 19 to 23.
The professional League, the most anticipated launch
In these competitions, the fans of teams such as Real Madrid, Atlético, Levante or Real Sociedad, among others, have high hopes. In the case of the Whites, the first title in their history would be at stake. Even if What is expected by the players, fans and most of the First Iberdrola clubs is the arrival of the Professional League, whose agreement seems to be close and could arrive at the beginning of the year, according to AS learned.
The professionalization of the League is one of the most anticipated milestones in this category in recent years. His arrival was made official with the approval by the CSD of the categorization of Primera Iberdrola as a professional League, a distinction that in Spain only has LaLiga Santander and Smartbank and the ACB. The long-awaited agreement in these months entails the approval of the statutes and the arrival of a new professional entity that manages the assets (television, advertising …) of Primera Iberdrola. A fact that it would solve many of the current problems in this category such as the war for televisions.
Virginia Torrecilla and a much desired redebut
Another of the great wishes for this 2022 is the Virginia Torrecilla’s redebut with Atlético. The Atlético midfielder has overcome brain cancer, which was diagnosed in March 2020, and He has not played a game since March 11, 2020. The Spanish international has become the great heroine of Spanish women’s football, being an example of struggle in sport.
‘Vir’, as he is known in the Atleti dressing room, He is already training with the team and his return to the pitch seems to be very close. A moment highly desired by fans of this category, who want to once again enjoy the quality and talent of Virginia on the pitch. The Atlético midfielder does not stop receiving signs of support and affection and recently gave its name to a sports center in Son Servera. “It is the most special award of my life”, said Torrecilla, who does not stop working to return to the green as soon as possible, which awaits him with open arms.