When Olga Carmona appeared on the run to face the goal of England, millions of Spanish held their breath. It did not fail. That goal made them all world champions, to the 23 players who arrived injured and have healed, to those who have filled the stadium stands for years, to those who narrate matches, to pilots, judges, conductors, mechanics to all those girls who were called weird for running after a ball in the yard, who will now do it with a star on their chest. The walls are knocked down with blows, or left-handed blows like those of the Sevillian, with tenacity to hunt down the opportunities that appear despite the still latent inequality. Glass ceilings shatter when women become gigantic. spain She is already completely world champion. She joined in one scream in 2010, she breaks out in another in 2023.
Spain did not tremble before the challenge and knew how to wait until its plan to make England uncomfortable came to fruition. He did not need to speed up when the intention was to submit the team in play with the ball. Sarah Wiegman, who managed to get close to Cata Coll only in gusts. They were much less than expected.
The script had been designed in the dressing room. If they came out under pressure to drown Aitana Bonmati o Beautiful, Marion It provided muscle to support the spinal cord and prevent the runs from the English, while the long balls to Salma Paralluelo had to force the European champions to look at their backs. When they managed to give the ball a pause, they had to quickly look for the shores with Ona Batlle and Olga Carmona so that its three power stations would see their service points multiplied. It took a few minutes for everything to come together and England could have gone ahead. From a robbery in the front he armed his shot Alexia Russo and the best English occasion crashed into the crossbar Lauren Hemp.
That sound of the spitted ball seemed like a bell that accelerated the Spanish. Carmona began to cross her lane generating a crack that the English could not plug. He served Salma a low cross that ended up at the far post with Alba Redondo crossing his shot too far from point-blank range. He had just peeked out for the first time Earpsand it would not be the last.
Wiegman, who already knows what it’s like to lose a World Cup, didn’t like seeing his team mismatch under pressure and quick counterattacks, and soon his grimace hardened even more. He bit Aitana and looked for Teresa, who already saw Mariona’s career outwitting Lucy Bronze. She put up with the Barça player long enough because she smelled that Carmona had started. With the same impudence that opened the doors to the final, he stood in the area to adjust a left-footed shot that only Earps sensed to the long post. An entire country pushed that ball that began to draw the star on her chest and she went crazy in an image that was reminiscent of what she experienced in 2010 in South Africa.