Spain won the World Cup with a left foot on indigenous land. He Stadium Australia Sydney occupies land in the Olympic Park that for thousands of years was home to the Wangal people. Until the first British settlers and the successive smallpox epidemics decimated the aborigines, who had to join other clans to survive.
On Sunday, those who conquered the land of the Wanngal were 23 Spanish warriors. In the toughest season, with mutinies inside a ship that threatened to sink, they have achieved the star.
After the final whistle, he interrupted the stay of Quevedo. What the Spanish team has achieved will remain forever engraved in the history of women’s football. Although, as an Australian commentator said, after the groundbreaking World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, it should start to be called just football.
Before starting the game, they sounded the babies of Aitana in the stadium when Mia, an Australian wearing a scarf from Spain and a hat from England, broke out to dance. Immediately, three of her friends saw themselves on top of her and accompanied her. They were already in tune because minutes before they had all warmed up with The Macarena. It was all one big party.
Meanwhile, on the five giant screens of the stadium, they broadcast the arrival of the Spanish team bus. The players seem to have already blended in with the atmosphere on the field: in the images they appeared pounding on the windows, shouting and clapping, like schoolchildren on a school excursion. That’s how they came out after plugged into the field. “They had fire in their eyes,” coach Jorge Vilda commented afterwards.