“Si se puede” (“Yes, it’s possible”).
The slogan has followed the Spanish women's team since the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, where all barriers fell at once.
In 2019, during the World Cup in France, Spain lost to the future American winner (2-1) in the round of 16.
In 2022, at the Euro in England, she lost to the English, future winners of the trophy at home (2-1 ap).
Encouraging results that helped him believe that “yes, it’s possible.”
» Until lifting the greatest trophy.
Yet she has come a long way, this Roja.
In particular a system created by the historic coach Ignacio Quereda, in office for 27 years (1988-2015)!
In 2021, a documentary entitled “Breaking the Silence” retraced this era: many internationals or ex-internationals testified to the moral harassment and disastrous methods used by this coach, finally dismissed in 2015 after years of denunciations to a federation ( RFEF) remained silent.
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