Former Manchester United celebrity David de Gea has congratulated Spain’s Girls’s staff after they beat England within the ultimate 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 recreation. The Actual Madrid left-back scored the one aim 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 staff of the world @SEFutbolFem Enhorabuena chicas (Congratulations women)🏆[Spain flag]”
De Gea is thought to be one of many Spanish males’s staff’s best goalkeepers, making 45 appearances, however he hasn’t performed for them since October 2020. He is at present 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 staff. 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 develop into the primary supervisor to information a European staff to the Girls’s World Cup since Silvia Neid lifted the trophy with Germany in 2007.
Pundit says Manchester United’s Mary Earps ought to be proud after efficiency towards Spain in Girls’s World Cup ultimate
Goalkeeper Mary Earps had a advantageous Girls’s World Cup for England, preserving 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 staff within the recreation. She was additionally between the sticks when the Lionesses beat Nigeria 4-2 on penalties within the last-16.
Former England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley mentioned by way of BBC Radio 5 Stay:
“Mary Earps ought to be very proud. She has had a superb event. Let’s not overlook the penalty save she made on this recreation to maintain England in it to the tip. 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 towards Spain. It is going to go down as one of many best Girls’s World Cup ultimate goalkeeping performances in a shedding trigger.