Although a priori the most difficult opponent reigning European championconsensus players were unanimous Spanish women’s soccer team For their preferred opponent in the World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand: “England”.

not healed yet elimination in the last Eurocopa quarter-finals against the English after they dominated throughout the match, but Jorge Vilda’s lack of goals punished them. Esther González put Spain ahead in the 58th minute, but in the 84th minute Toons nailed Russo’s shot into the net to tie it at the end of 90 minutes. in overtime a stanway shoe In ’96 he smashed Spanish hopes outside the region.

That match, played a little over a year ago on 20 July 2022, is very fresh in the memory of Vilda players. English players praised the Spaniards’ performance, but British media had diluted the previous atmosphere with some expressions that challenge the previous one. It’s a common practice in British newspapers, especially when the rival is Spain.


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The newspaper archives are full of teasing and rude disqualifications by the British against Hispanic men and women every time they encounter our team, both boys and girls. In 1996, when the men’s team faced England (and lost) in the Eurocup quarterfinals, tabloids like The Mirror or The Sun mocked Spanish women with insulting jokes and asked a question like this: “Do you know why Spaniards wear mustaches? To look like their mother”. Or also: “What are beautiful girls called in Spain? Tourists”.

Franco, paella, the Inquisition…

Later, as Lola Galán recalled in an article published at the time in ‘El País’, Sun presented the special list 10 unpleasant contributions from Spain to the world: including syphilis (“Brought from Central America by Columbus”), Spanish flu, Bombardment model used against Gernika In the Civil War, the Inquisition, the bulls, the Spanish fly (“a useless aphrodisiac”), paella (also known as cobblestone paella for what it repeats) flamenco, which he compares to the female version of “speed”, a little-known English folk dance, francisco franco (“The chubby dictator with the stupid mustache”) and Eldorado, a BBC series filmed in our country.

And how could it be otherwise, they began to remember the list of defeats in wars, such as the Spanish Armada, which the British popular press always attributed to the pirate Drake (in a hodgepodge of Dutch pirates attacks on Spanish ships) comes from America, War of independence from Portugal, battle of Trafalgar and loss of last colonies in 1898. Let’s finish with the words that can be read on the pages of the Mirror: “Spain must prepare for defeat next Saturday because has an impressive losing record. The last time the country won an important war was Lepanto… It was against Turkey”.

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