Every day throughout the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, 20 Minutes provides an update on the highlights of the competition. This Sunday, the day after Les Bleues’ great victory against Brazil, we witnessed a historic first for women’s football and we learned potential bad news for the France team, which could find themselves facing the double champions of the German world from the 8th finals.
Nouhaila Benzina for history
The Moroccan became this Sunday the first veiled player to play in a Women’s World Cup match. Substitute in the first match against Germany, the defender this time held her place and marked the competition, taking advantage of the lifting by Fifa of the ban on wearing the veil during international matches almost 10 years ago. . “A lot of work has been done for several years, and there has been a positive result,” said the player before the competition. The ban on wearing the veil in football is still in place in some countries, including France, where a debate recently took place at the initiative of the “Hijabeuses” collective.
Norway extinguishes the dream of New Zealand women
The Norwegians narrowly avoid another humiliation. Out in the first round of the last Euro after a monumental slap received against England (0-8), Ada Hegerberg’s teammates were last in their group before the final day. But their jump against modest Philippines completely overwhelmed (6-0) finally allowed them to qualify with the difference, to the detriment of New Zealand. The co-organizers of the World Cup thought they had done the hardest part by taking a point against Switzerland (0-0), but they find themselves third on goal difference (+5 against 0). A terrible disappointment. As for the Norwegians, they will have to do much better in the round of 16 to hope to regain the luster of yesteryear.
The mobilizing speech of Hervé Renard
As we know, the coach of Les Bleues is an aesthete of the genre. Everyone remembers his speech at half-time in the match between Saudi Arabia and Argentina at the last Men’s World Cup, which carried his players to historic success. Before the match against Brazil on Saturday, the coach also knew how to find the words to motivate his players. “Free yourself, dare, do it”, he says in particular, when his team was too timid in the opening against Jamaica. “This time, we put the entry choke,” he adds. We have to believe that he was heard since the Bleues had a first period of high flight, before winning at the very end of the match on a header from Wendie Renard.
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Germany is surprised and does not do the business of the Blues AT ALL
It would have been too good… We were starting to study the Les Bleues table game this morning, thinking that if they enforced the hierarchy during the last pool match against Panama and they finished first, it was announced well cleared until the semi-finals. And hell. The Germans, double world champions (2003, 2007), tripped over Colombia. A goal from Manuela Vanegas at the end of added time (90th + 7) allowed the Colombians to create the sensation of the day and take the lead of the group. Result, if the logic is respected next Thursday, it is Germany who will face the Blue for an explosive round of 16. Really not a gift.
