Former Manchester United famous person David de Gea has congratulated Spain’s Girls’s crew after they beat England within the last of the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup on Sunday (August 20).
Olga Carmona (23) began the sport because the second youngest captain to make the beginning XI of a Girls’s World Cup sport. The Actual Madrid left-back scored the one objective of the sport within the twenty ninth minute after her sweetly struck left-footed shot fizzed previous Mary Earps into the far nook.
After the sport, an elated and proud De Gea tweeted:
“Greatest crew of the world @SEFutbolFem Enhorabuena chicas (Congratulations ladies)🏆[Spain flag]”
De Gea is considered one of many Spanish males’s crew’s best goalkeepers, making 45 appearances, however he hasn’t performed for them since October 2020. He is presently with out a membership since being launched by Manchester United final month.
This was the primary World Cup win for the Spanish ladies’s nationwide crew. It was solely the third time that they had participated within the competitors; they have been eradicated within the final 16 in 2019.
Supervisor Jorge Vilda has now change into the primary supervisor to information a European crew to the Girls’s World Cup since Silvia Neid lifted the trophy with Germany in 2007.
Pundit says Manchester United’s Mary Earps needs to be proud after efficiency in opposition to Spain in Girls’s World Cup last
Goalkeeper Mary Earps had a superb Girls’s World Cup for England, retaining three clear sheets in seven video games as she gained the Golden Glove award.
Earps (27) saved Jennifer Hermoso’s penalty within the 69th minute to maintain her crew within the sport. She was additionally between the sticks when the Lionesses beat Nigeria 4-2 on penalties within the last-16.
Former England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley stated by way of BBC Radio 5 Reside:
“Mary Earps needs to be very proud. She has had a superb match. Let’s not neglect the penalty save she made on this sport to maintain England in it to the top. She has been completely excellent.”
Earps, who performs for Manchester United within the Girls’s Tremendous League, additionally made 4 saves and recorded 5 recoveries in opposition to Spain. It should go down as one of many best Girls’s World Cup last goalkeeping performances in a dropping trigger.
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