The England fans are beginning to arrive at Wembley for the final.
Posted on 07/31/2022 4:49:28 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
LONDON (AP) — England against Germany at Wembley Stadium. A final that underlines the growing stature of women’s soccer in Europe and echoes decades of history.
When host nation England takes on Germany in the European Championship final Sunday, it will have a tournament-record crowd of nearly 90,000. Euro 2022 as a whole will be easily the best-attended ever. It beat the previous mark of 240,000 part-way through the group stage.
“It’s going to be a great festival of football,” German coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg said Wednesday. “That’s a classic in soccer, England-Germany.”
England is aiming to win its first major women’s tournament title on the site where the English men’s national team beat West Germany to win its only major title to date, the 1966 World Cup.
Germany has won all eight European finals it’s played — and crushed England 6-2 in the 2009 final — but its momentum had seemed to slow in recent years as other countries invested heavily in women’s leagues.
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“England is aiming to win its first major women’s tournament title”
Not surprised they left that little tidbit out of the headline; we’re led to believe it is real soccer.
If you knew soccer you would not be confused.
Women's Euro 2022: England out to avenge 2009 final defeat in rematch against Germany... Around 87,000 fans are set to be at the home of English football, which would smash the current attendance record for a Euros final -- men's or women's -- of 79,115, set at the 1964 final between Spain and the Soviet Union at the Bernabeu in Madrid.
UEFA, European football's governing body, says nearly 100,000 children have attended matches so far at Euro 2022, while 47% of all fans have been women.
Not really; anyone who knows soccer knows there is only one...
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German defense looks very strong. France got a freak goal. Having watched all the games, Germany is the favorite, but England could spring a surprise at home. Germans have never lost a final.
I like Germany.
An England win would be a great boost for Women’s soccer there considering the history of English Soccer (One big win in 1966).
So I wouldn’t be torn about it.
I just like to see a clean game either way.
Good catch! Correct it’s not even soccer.
Who watches women’s soccer anyways?
I’m guessing folks who dye their hair pink & blue.
Recall the 15 year old amateur boys who defeated the USA Women’s national team.
You can put your insane hatred in your tagline. Suits you better.
The only insane person is you - Berliner.
And you clearly don’t know me.
I coach girls youth soccer and even they know they will get killed by the boys.
Maybe you belong on the Democratic Underground that sports your insane liberal views plus the jabs to go with it?
Reality seems to escape you.
It’s not a real woman’s sport until some guy gets on the team and pretends to be a girl.
You should fit that insane hatred on your about me page.
How many men can beat Sydney McLaughlin’s world record 50.68 in the 400m hurdles? Many, but that doesn’t detract from her accomplishment. We have separate sports for male and female, which is being eroded under our woke culture. You can be a fan of both men’s and women’s sports. Why be the skunk at the garden party?
German coach, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg
“We’ve dreamed of this: a final against England at Wembley. I don’t know if there’s a bigger moment for our players,” Voss-Tecklenburg said before they made their way out for the last session before Sunday’s final, into an arena that maintains a mythology, a mystique for them too, expressed in Berlin as becoming “Deutsch Wembley” when it hosts cup finals. It’s a stage that may be about to take on an extra significance, the hope expressed of a lasting legacy as well as another story to be told.Dietmar Hamann scored the last goal before Wembley was redeveloped. There was Euro 1996, 30 years of hurt becoming 56 that could finally end tomorrow. And, of course, 1966. Germans talk fondly too – and yes, they do talk fondly of ‘66 – about the quarter-final of the Euros in 1972.
“I was born in 1967, so ...” Voss-Tecklenburg said, smiling. “But everyone knows the history between Germany and England, Wembley goals and penalties.” And now there is this, and it is special; bigger than the rivalry, transcending these teams, but also bigger for the rivalry.
“England v Germany electrifies football fans,” the Germany coach added. “There is such a tradition, a history. For me, there is just one football and this is a football feast. If we could have chosen a dream, we would have chosen England in this final, no one else.”
Kick ball tournament?
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