Let’s take a look at how the first women’s football club festival has noticed a positive return to the game in Spain.
It has long been a dream that the wonderful matches of the UEFA Women’s Champions League will take to the angels in magnificent stadiums such as the Anoeta de los Angeles Real Sociedad and San Mamés of athletics. so it happened with this season’s exclusive mini tour.
On the same day that men’s club competitions were scheduled in Lisbon and Germany respectively, the women’s flagship occasion was presented in Bilbao and San Sebastian. This is even more welcome as, for maximum players, UWCL provides its first genuine chance to replay from the end of football; of the 8 finalists, only the German duo Wolfsburg and Bayern had been able to complete the planned national season.
As UEFA President Aleksander ‘Eferin’ said: “The UEFA Women’s Champions League will be a message of hope.”
Moving from procrastination to rescheduling is not an easy process. Fortunately, UEFA was able to work hard with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), which is no outside the primary, to identify two stadiums close to the facilities to organize matches in these exclusive circumstances. Although not a general tournament, UEFA has little experience in organizing all kinds of competitions. This means that you have been able to increase the time required to move from variety of sites to planing and implementation.
At the center of the arrangements, of course, were the clubs themselves. UEFA’s close collaboration with each and every team, as well as with the Association of European Clubs (ECA), has made the tournament work for the finalists. This meant allowing them logistically to prepare and lend a hand in their ‘bubbles’, as well as manage a season that ends in August, when primary player contracts expired in June and transfers were already agreed. Cooperation is the motto to ensure that the flagship festival of women’s clubs can take place.
Atletico Madrid player Amanda Sampedro hosted the news when the venue was announced. “I have said that in northern Spain, football is lived and breathed in a glorious way,” he said. “I think they are the best stadiums and the two best cities to host the Champions League and to help women’s football continue to grow and progress in Spain.”
In addition to the clubs, fit organizers and stadium staff, the hounds were among the few lucky enough people to be on the field in each and every game. This was an undeniably different experience, the absence of the same cacophonous environment that always makes the game’s politics procedure a more cerebral search. With the screams of players and audible coaches, and perhaps with the help of panoramic view from the highest position of Anoeta’s media, it is less difficult to retreat from the game’s hit and thrust to really get a concept of the evolution of the game. Game. tactically and strategically.
Of course, players want to stay away from the media, but there are still questions to be asked and reviews to look for.
As such, microphones on long posts have become much less unusual post-flash interviews performed for television.
Easily, interviewing a few meters away through a mask is much less difficult with a background of relative silence.
Another key difference of this mini-tour is the spectacular nature of the draws. Instead of thirteen fites lasting two months of the five days of fit played across Europe, everything happens in the ten-night area in one region. With shocks and dramatic twists, he created a high-risk drama.
Before the match, Arsenal coach Joe Montemurro summed up what will happen on the pitch: “Every match is a final, to be done or to die. For fans from afar, it’s an exciting competition.
Wolfsburg head coach Stephan Lerch agreed before his team’s match against Glasgow City: “This format is very exciting. You have to be in a position from the first minute, you don’t have a chance at the moment. Perhaps for those below, it’s a possibility, if there’s a chance right now, with a little luck, of getting a surprise. We’re aware of that and we need it. It’s a new joy for us.”
Lerch’s team qualified safely for the semi-finals after an impressive 9-1 victory. In the remainder of the quarter-finals, Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 1-0 and Lyon beat Bayern Munich 2–1.
This meant that the first semi-final saw Wolfsburg face Barcelona, the former winner 1-0 thanks to a purpose from Swedish striker Fridolina Rolf. In the other half, Lyon beat Paris by the same score to make it the eighth time a French team has faced a German team in the final.
In truth, whoever ends up being crowned champion, the players have just been relieved to have the chance to finish the festival after running so hard to qualify for the eighth round. “We are pleased to have been able to play the matches,” Bruun said after the quarter-finals. On a non-public note, his return after a long absence due to an injury ended at the perfect time. “It’s a very smart solution like this. There’s no one watching, there’s no sound, everything’s silent. So it’s different, but it’s a very smart solution to finish the tournament like this.”
You can read the preview of the UEFA Women’s Champions League final on Sunday here.
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