2023-08-15 20:06:02
A 23-year-old young woman from Campllong, Laia Codina and her teammates from the Spanish national team have made history qualifying for the World Cup final after an agonizing victory against Sweden. The Girona player, who has played little for Barça this season but who, on the other hand, is a starter for Jorge Vilda in the national team, can add another title on Sunday (12 p.m.) against England or Australia (it will be known tomorrow) (he already has two Champions and a European under-19, apart from three leagues) to a resume that makes her one of the most lauded Girona athletes, despite her youth, and which also earned her last June being chosen as the best Girona athlete at the Atenea del Diari de Girona awards. Today Spain won thanks to goals from Salma Paralluelo and Olga Carmona in a match of legend for football and Spanish women’s sport in general.
Now collect achievements and it is speculated that this summer he could change Barça for Arsenal. But between 2005 and 2014, when Laia Codina was just a girl from Campllong who liked football, who idolized Carles Puyol, she had to start playing the sport at Cassà in a children’s team, due to a lack of teams female He was reunited with some of them in May 2021 in Cassà, in a tribute they paid him after his first Champions League with Barça. That pre-Benjamin team that went to Andorra to play a tournament in the 2007/08 season it was made up of technicians Berni Domingo and Xevi Subirana, and Codina shared the pitch with Àlex Almar, Robert Bou, Marçal Pérez, Quim Garzón, Guillem Cuixart, Eloi Ribas, Joan Castañé, Xevi Casas, and an Arnau Comas trained at Barça and who now plays in Basel, Switzerland.
He arrived at Barça in the cadet category. Five seasons in Blaugrana grassroots football, leading the subsidiary in the year of their promotion to the Reto Iberdrola league, preceded his jump to the first team. He made his debut there against Sporting de Huelva in October 2019, and four days later, he did so in the Champions League. The 2020/21 season was already part of the first professional squad for all intents and purposes, where she has played this time except for a transfer to Milan, and despite the fact that she has one more year of contract, some sources place her outside of Barça this course and Arsenal’s option wins. His good World Cup surely helps him stay among the best, while finishing his studies in Journalism which started a few years ago with the hope of working one day doing radio, be it sports or not.
For now, Sunday can continue to make history, playing in the World Cup final. Yesterday he was on the field the whole game against Sweden, with his usual solvency. The game, resolved in an outcome with an unbearable emotional charge with three goals in the last ten minutes and in which Carmona avoided extra time with a heavenly action, was nothing more than the penultimate chapter of a selection that has become accustomed in this World Cup to always prevail in the most extreme survival exercises.
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Vilda was once again an interventionist trainer. Alexia Putellas returned to the starting eleven, after two successive substitutions, and Esther González was sacrificed, whose place was occupied by Jenni Hermoso, again in the lead. Olga Carmona replaced the suspended Oihane Hernández and Ona Batlle returned to the right side. In Sweden, same lineup as against Japan. None of the two selections managed to lead the baton of the match. It was a tug of war. And both had chances to open the scoring. The first clear was for Spain, after a cross from Olga Carmona – which was one of the best – but no one managed to finish off a dead ball in the area that left Alba Redondo among high rejections.
All of Sweden’s danger came through Rolfö, who knew how to hide well his knee discomfort that he has been having since the Champions League semi-finals against Chelsea. When Kungsbacka put the sixth, it reached the area with ease. Irene Paredes and Codina were providential, and Ona Batlle helped. Cata Coll, very solid and also sure with her feet, sent a Blaugrana shot from inside the area to the center of Björn into the corner with a save.
The last 10 minutes were crazy. Salma scored first. Jenni’s cross from the left, rejected the Swedish defense and the ball fell to the Zaragoza, who did not forgive from inside the area. The euphoria was short-lived. As was the case against the Netherlands, Sweden equalized a few minutes later, Blomqvist following a Rolfö cross. Far from falling, Spain pulled out all their pride and went for more. When extra time was coming, Olga Carmona appeared to take Spain to the final.
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⚽️ The goals of @SalmaParalluelo y @7olgacarmona they brilliantly classify the National Team for the grand final of the World Cup.
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— Spanish Women’s Soccer Team (@SEFutbolFem) August 15, 2023
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