(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 04 – The journey of the women’s national team in the European Championship scheduled for July 6 to 31 in England begins today. The blue are leaving from Rome, where they found themselves after having concluded last Friday the last phase of the retreat in Castel di Sangro, closed with the same in the friendly match with Spain, and will reach Blackburn, home of the retreat for the whole tournament. .
Those who in 2019 were the “World Girls”, capable of making an entire country interested in their results (Italy managed to reach the quarter-finals of the French World Cup, surrendering only to Holland, who will defend the continental title in England in 2017), are ready to become the “European Girls” and to make Italy fall in love again. After more than a month of work, which began in Appiano Gentile, continued in Coverciano and ended in Castel di Sangro, the time to take the field is approaching.
The first match will be played next Sunday, July 10th at 9pm (Italian time) in Rotherham against France, a national team unbeaten in 16 consecutive matches (eight qualifiers for the European Championships and eight qualifiers for the World Cup) and that. in the same period he conceded just three goals. The other two matches of the Italians in Group D are scheduled for Thursday 14 July at 5pm against Iceland and Monday 18 at 9pm against Belgium, both at the 4,000-seat Manchester City Academy Stadium. The first two teams of each group qualify in the quarter-finals; the final, on the other hand, will be played on Sunday 31 July at 6 pm at Wembley, a stadium that evokes wonderful memories for Italy, namely those of the triumph of the men’s national team a year ago.
Coach Milena Bertolini, in her first European championship on the national team bench, in recent days defined the official squad of the 23 players, focusing on the historic group that has already taken part in the 2019 World Cup, with some new features, such as the Sassuolo defender Maria Luisa Filangeri, born in 2000, the youngest in the team. Juventus is the most represented club (9 players), followed by Rome (4), Milan and Fiorentina (3).
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Source: Ansa
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