The awakening of women’s football

This could be the starting World Cup for women’s football in Spain. From a seemingly accessible group, with Costa Rica, Zambia and Japan (world champion 2011) as initial opponents, everything points to the fact that the team will have its first classy game in the round of 16, when it will have to face another European team (Norway or Switzerland). , or maybe one of the hosts New Zealand. With Alexia Putellas rested after a season in which she could barely play, Barcelona as the brand new European champions, and while back-to-back successes in the lower divisions continue to bring quality and physicality to the senior team, the first of the enemies of the Spanish women Football must end this summer without major of sports events is the schedule.

It’s up to them to elbow their way onto the headlines and turn on the sleepiest fans’ alarm clocks to celebrate something more than a Spanish fairy tale, showing whether the United States continues its hegemony after three finals and two consecutive titles, or if new stars take the place of the eternal Alex Morgan, Rapinoe or Martha.

Until the second half of August, when the World Cup in athletics will begin, followed by basketball, canoeing and the Tour of Spain, this World Cup has the opportunity to accompany breakfasts and comment on early mornings. Due to Spain’s distance from Oceania, all matches will be played very early. There is even a possibility that those Round of 16 matches will be played at seven in the morning… and then the quarterfinals maybe at three…

It’s all about taking off your plain football overalls, turning the page on boring preseason bowling and discovering that women’s soccer is more than just a fad.