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Yahoo
7 days ago
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- Yahoo
🌟 The best young stars at EURO 2025 so far
The EURO 2025 group stage is over and the knockout rounds begin this week. First, though, there's time to highlight some of the young players lighting up the tournament so far. The development of the stars of tomorrow is being supported by Just Eat, which pairs local, grassroots football with restaurant partners across Europe. Click here to learn more about the 'Feed The Game' campaign and the aid being offered to the women's game at the grassroots level. From their own grassroots beginnings to the biggest stage of all, here are our three players under the age of 21 to look out for when the quarter-finals begin: Sydney Schertenleib Hosts Switzerland started the tournament well against Norway but when they found themselves behind and needed a spark, they turned to 18-year-old Schertenleib from the bench. Her ability to create something and her vision almost brought about an equaliser on that opening day and her display earned her a start in the two following group games, which saw her provide an assist for the opener against Finland. Watch this space. Vicky López Another talent from Barcelona, López faced the daunting task of stepping in for Aitana Bonmatí at the start of the tournament. She was entirely unfazed. López, 18, shone and scored in the 5-0 win over Portugal, then assisted in the 6-2 defeat of Belgium, and offered a different kind of threat out wide off the bench in the win against Italy. Signe Gaupset Introduced midway through Norway's second game, with them level against Finland but struggling to impress, Gaupset offered a real threat down the left. That performance saw her earn a star against Iceland and the winger, who turned 20 in June, was the best player on the pitch, scoring twice and assisting twice in a 4-3 win. Look out for her against Italy on Wednesday. 📸 MIGUEL MEDINA - AFP or licensors
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🌟 The best young stars at EURO 2025 so far
🌟 The best young stars at EURO 2025 so far The EURO 2025 group stage is over and the knockout rounds begin this week. First, though, there's time to highlight some of the young players lighting up the tournament so far. The development of the stars of tomorrow is being supported by Just Eat, which pairs local, grassroots football with restaurant partners across Europe. Advertisement Click here to learn more about the 'Feed The Game' campaign and the aid being offered to the women's game at the grassroots level. From their own grassroots beginnings to the biggest stage of all, here are our three players under the age of 21 to look out for when the quarter-finals begin: Sydney Schertenleib Hosts Switzerland started the tournament well against Norway but when they found themselves behind and needed a spark, they turned to 18-year-old Schertenleib from the bench. Her ability to create something and her vision almost brought about an equaliser on that opening day and her display earned her a start in the two following group games, which saw her provide an assist for the opener against Finland. Advertisement Watch this space. Vicky López Another talent from Barcelona, López faced the daunting task of stepping in for Aitana Bonmatí at the start of the tournament. She was entirely unfazed. López, 18, shone and scored in the 5-0 win over Portugal, then assisted in the 6-2 defeat of Belgium, and offered a different kind of threat out wide off the bench in the win against Italy. Signe Gaupset Introduced midway through Norway's second game, with them level against Finland but struggling to impress, Gaupset offered a real threat down the left. That performance saw her earn a star against Iceland and the winger, who turned 20 in June, was the best player on the pitch, scoring twice and assisting twice in a 4-3 win. Advertisement Look out for her against Italy on Wednesday. 📸 MIGUEL MEDINA - AFP or licensors
San Francisco Chronicle
11-07-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Euro 2025: Switzerland riding wild emotions on and off the field into quarterfinals debut
GENEVA (AP) — Let's go crazy, Switzerland. The national women's soccer team is riding a wave of passionate support in a country where emotions are typically kept under control. Crucial goals like Switzerland got in the 90th and 92nd minutes of the past two games in sold-out stadiums helped unleash those strong feelings. 'We feel the whole of Switzerland behind us. It's unbelievable,' defender Viola Calligaris said late Thursday after a frantic finish to the 1-1 draw with Finland. The stoppage-time leveler by substitute Riola Xhemaili advanced the Swiss at the expense of the Finns — and earned the hosts a full week of anticipation before its first ever knockout game at a Women's Euros. The wait was a mighty long time — 41 years — and will end next Friday in Bern, likely against world champion Spain. It is what veteran coach Pia Sundhage asked of her players before the tournament, when there was much less public faith in their potential: 'You have to get crazy.' 'Sometimes that is not good enough,' Sundhage, who coached ultra-confident United States players to win two Olympic titles, said in May. 'And that is scary for a Swiss player.' They look fearless now. Fans and team in harmony The noisy crowds in Geneva on Thursday and Bern last Sunday — when Iceland was swept aside 2-0 by a late tide of attacks — have responded to their high-energy team. 'It is so much more fun to coach and play when you have a loud crowd,' Sundhage said in the glow of staying in the tournament. 'The reason we are in the quarterfinal is because we are on home soil.' The 65-year-old Swedish coach perhaps underplayed her own tone-setting role in the late drama. Switzerland needed only a draw with Finland to advance alongside Group A winner Norway on goal difference ahead of its opponent. Yet at halftime of a goalless game, Sundhage rejected caution and went for the win. Top teenage prospects She sent on 19-year-old Leila Wandeler and pushed forward 18-year-old Iman Beney to form an all-teenage attack with Sydney Schertenleib — top talents signed by Lyonnes, Manchester City and Barcelona, respectively. She brought on Switzerland's record goalscorer Ana-Maria Crnogorčević to play at right-back. Swiss play became faster, more fluid, chances were created and Finland scored only from a 79th-minute penalty that was recklessly conceded. Sundhage then put more attackers on the field, including Xhemaili who was in the Finland goalmouth in stoppage time to score by diverting in Géraldine Reuteler's shot. 'I just saw in everyone's eyes that we would still score this goal,' Reuteler said about the strike that kept Switzerland in Euro 2025. Was this the 'get crazy' moment Sundhage sought, she was asked. 'A little bit of a start, maybe,' she said. 'I try to lead by example. That's why Wandeler, she plays. Iman plays. Sydney Schertenleib plays. It's okay to make a mistake. They go in and they just play.' Finland's goalscorer Natalia Kuikka, the experienced Chicago Stars defender, also saw it. 'They clearly came to the game that they wanted to win and it kind of showed,' Kuikka said of the Swiss. Joyous Swiss A tournament veteran like Sundhage saw the positive signs in camp of what she called 'this phenomenal team coming together.' 'Since we went into the (tournament) bubble I think they've been louder,' she said. 'They are dancing and they are creating this energy which I think helps us when we go on the pitch." 'It is so important to embrace that joy, that is all that matters. And we are not finished yet.'
The Independent
06-07-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
The moment Switzerland banished their ‘almost' tag to claim Women's Euro 2025 lift-off
This time the blaring sound of Seven Nation Army was for real. As Geraldine Reuteler wheeled away, Switzerland finally had lift off at Euro 2025 and the hosts could soar into celebration. Alayah Pilgrim's stoppage time finish to seal a 2-0 victory in Bern eliminated opponents Iceland while boosting their own chances of reaching the quarter-finals, with a shoot-out against Finland in Geneva on Thursday set to decide who joins Norway in the knockout stages. Switzerland's frustration from their opening defeat to Norway looked to be continuing when Svenja Fölmli first-half opener was disallowed by VAR and Iman Beney's roaring strike on the half-volley rippled the side-netting, tricking the majority of the 29,000 capacity crowd in Bern into thinking they were in front. They survived a few scares too, mostly from Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir's long throws. Iceland twice hit the bar and perhaps Switzerland could have been tempted to settle for a point as the clock ticked into the 76th minute. Instead, Pia Sundhage's side kept going. Powered on by another excellent home support, Switzerland remained adventurous and lively in attack. The 18-year-old forward Sydney Schertenleib, whose face is plastered across advertising boards across Switzerland and was brought into the starting line-up by Sundhage, always looked capable of unlocking the door. Reuteler, meanwhile, carried threat with clever, inventive touches. But Switzerland just needed a moment. It came, at last, as Lia Walti stepped in to win a force challenge in midfield, with the Switzerland captain finding Schertenleib on the turn. Schertenleib eased forward and then timed her pass to release Reuteler. The midfielder was Switzerland's player of the match in their opening defeat but had missed a golden chance late on to claim a point. This time, though, Reuteler found the corner and sparked the red eruption. Pilgrim's breakaway goal finished Iceland off, ensuring they were the first team to be knocked out while sending Norway through. Backed by a tremendous and rowdy section of support, Iceland twice hit the frame of the goal, with Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir hitting the upright inside the first minute from Jónsdóttir's cannon of a long throw and Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir skimming the crossbar a long-range free-kick. But, outside of long throws and set-pieces, Iceland offered very little. For Switzerland, it looked for a long time as if they would still be waiting for their moment. The hosts had led Norway in their opening game and were the better team in Basel, but lost. Against Iceland, Switzerland had the majority of the possession and all of the drive to attack. Until the 76th minute, Beney's goal that never was looked to be going down as their most memorable moment. It took a few seconds for the goal music to be turned off after it transpired that Beney's strike, which would have certainly been a contender for goal of Euro 2025, did not go in. Cue for more anguish for Switzerland, who had an earlier first-half opener disallowed by VAR after the scorer Fölmli blocked Iceland's Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir before heading towards goal. Referee Marta Huerta De Aza was sent to the pitchside monitor, wiping the smile from the face of Sundhage. Switzerland were also rather shaken from having the crossbar struck so early and from the first of Jonsdottir's long throws. In drizzly rain, the winger required a towel to dry the ball before launching it into the box. It was causing Switzerland problems, to the extent that Switzerland's back-up goalkeeper Nadine Katja Böhi marched over to confiscate Jonsdottir's towel from a rather confused ball girl. Beney went close for a second time when her looping header was tipped over by Iceland goalkeeper Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir. But, just as it was threatening to become another 'almost night' for Switzerland, they found those golden touches: Walti sensed the moment, Schertenleib found her timing, and Reuteler made amends for her haunting miss against Norway. Switzerland are looking forwards now and momentum is on their side as they face Finland for a quarter-final place.
The Guardian
06-07-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Switzerland v Iceland: Women's Euro 2025
Update: Date: 2025-07-06T18:10:15.000Z Title: Norway extended their perfect start to the Euros Content: with a 2-1 win over Finland earlier today. They did need some late Carolina Graham Hansen magic to do so but they pull off another narrow win. This means Norway will be top of the group heading into the last round of group matches no matter what the result between Switzerland and Finland as Norway now have six points. Update: Date: 2025-07-06T18:03:25.000Z Title: Team news Content: The team news is in. Hosts Switzerland have made two changes with Sydney Schertenleib and Svenja Folmli in for Riola Xhemaili and Noemi Ivelj. Switzerland: Peng; Beney, Calligaris, Stierli, Maritz, Riesen; Reuteler, Wälti, Vallotto; Schertenleib, Folmi Subs: Herzog, Böhi, Wandeler, Ivelj, Xhemaili, Crnogorčević, Terchoun, Sow, Ballesté, Mauron, Pilgrim, Lehmann Iceland have also made two changes to their line-up, one forced and one perhaps tactical. Hlin Eiriksdottir and Hildur Antonsdottir drop out with Dagny Brynjarsdottir and Agla Albertsdottir coming in. Iceland: Runarsdottir; Gudr. Arnardottir, Sigurdardottir, Viggosdottir, Gudn. Arnadottir; Brynjarsdottir, Vilhjalmsdottir, Johannsdottir; Jonsdottir, Jessen, Albertsdottir Subs: Ívarsdóttir, Birkisdóttir, B. Ágústsdóttir, Heiðarsdóttir, Zomers, Anasi, H. Eiríksdóttir, K. Tryggvadóttir, Gunnlaugsdóttir, Halldórsdóttir, Andradóttir Update: Date: 2025-07-06T18:00:45.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Hello and welcome to the Group A match between Switzerland v Iceland at Euro 2025. Both nations are searching for their first wins of the tournament. Hosts Switzerland lost 2-1 to Norway in their opener, while Iceland fell to a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Finland. As well as having no winning momentum, Iceland will have to deal with the suspension of Hildur Antonsdóttir as she received a red card in the opening game. The rest of the team news will be dropping shortly and I will bring you all the changes and headline news. There will also be updates from the other match in this group which is just finishing between Norway and Finland. So stay tuned before kick-off at 8pm BST.
