Spain was invited to the FIFA Women’s Under-20 (U20) World Cup in Costa Rica.
Spain beat Japan 3-1 in the final on Sunday midnight IST. With this, Spain has responded to the defeat against Japan in the final match of the 2018 World Cup.
In this game Inma Capparo (12′), Salma Celeste (22′, 27′) scored for Spain and Suzu Amano (47′) scored for Japan. Spain has gifted defeat to Japan, who are unbeaten in 9 matches in the current World Cup.
Spain’s Inma Caparro’s goal in this match is her 8th goal in the current tournament. With this, she became the first player to score more than 7 goals in a single season of the World Cup in the last 12 years. Similarly, Salma Celeste also became the 2nd player to score 2 goals in the World Cup final.
Brazil 3rd place: Brazil defeated Netherlands 4-1 in the 3rd place match. In the match, Ana Clara (9′), Darsian Karen (59′, 79′), Ki Fonandes (89′) scored for Brazil, and Rosa van Kool (21′) scored for the Netherlands.
Special Award: The ‘Golden Ball’ award went to Japan’s Maika Hamano, the ‘Silver Ball’ went to Spain’s Inma Caparo and the ‘Bronze Ball’ went to Brazil’s Darcien for the best goal scorer in the tournament.
Spain’s Inma Caparo (8 goals) won the ‘Golden Boot’ award, Japan’s Maika Hamano (4 goals) the ‘Silver Boot’ award and Yuzuki Yamamoto (3 goals) the ‘Bronze Boot’ award. The best goalkeeper award went to Spain’s Meritzel Fond.