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With women’s football one of the most hotly contested sports at Paris 2024, Al Jazeera runs through five names to watch. The United States team heads to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as favourites to claim the women’s football gold. The 26-year-old, who received her award at a ceremony alongside men’s winner Lionel Messi, helped her side claim the 2023 …

Women’s Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmati wants to add Olympic glory to her long list of accomplishments after winning the World Cup and Ballon d’Or in 2023. The 26-year-old has led Barcelona to four consecutive Spanish Liga F titles, and her team lifted the Women’s Champions League trophy twice in three years. Bonmati helped Spain secure its first Olympic qualification …

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Spain forward Mariona Caldentey said Monday she hopes the women’s team can compete at the Olympic Games next year, as long as it is under “the conditions we think we deserve”. A players’ strike threatened to derail the team’s hopes of reaching the Paris Games in 2024, after disgraced former president of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales, kissed a …

Aitana Bonamti, Barcelona Femeni and the Spanish women’s National team forward, won the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year Award at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Thursday. The 25-year-old, who also won the Golden Ball Award at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, dedicated the award to her teammate Jenni Hermoso, who has been at the receiving end of …

Women’s World Cup champion Spain poised for long run among soccer elite with talented young team

Spain’s goalscoring hero Olga Carmona hailed her “unstoppable” side as it beat England 1-0 to win the Women’s World Cup for the first time on Sunday in Sydney. “It was a really tough game, we knew it would be tricky, England has a great team, but I think it was our game,” Carmona told Spanish national broadcasters La 1. RELATED: …

Spain star Aitana Bonmati will likely be a leading contender to succeed teammate Alexia Putellas as the Ballon d'Or Feminin winner should she help La Roja to glory on Sunday. England eyes 'incredible' chance to end 57-year World Cup drought, but silky-skilled Spain plans a repeat of its own SYDNEY — Skipper Millie Bright said her team is determined to …

Coach and teammates say the 19-year-old Barcelona winger is destined for greatness after scoring a stunning winner in Women’s World Cup quarter-final. With nine minutes to go until the end of extra time in Spain’s quarter-final against the Netherlands, Salma Paralluelo collected a through ball in the Dutch half, bamboozled the defenders with a step-over and unleashed a left-footed thunderbolt …

Five days after Spain’s shock loss to Japan, a bold squad reshuffle by coach Jorge Vilda paid off for the Spanish team on Saturday as it thrashed Switzerland 5-1 in its last-16 FIFA Women’s World Cup clash. Read: Bonmati scores brilliant brace to lead Spain into quarterfinals “Today, we showed that Spain is a team of 23 players,” Vilda said. …

Women’s World Cup 2023: Spain team guide