Real-Barça is a rivalry for greater than 100 years, however that is an unprecedented confrontation: the skilled Barcelona might be confronted with the freshness of the new arrivals from Madrid, for the first “clasico“in the history of Spanish girls’s soccer, Sunday at the opening of La Liga (1:30 p.m.). A fortress towards a totally new building.
In a Spanish girls’s league accustomed to the hegemony of Barcelona and Atlético Madrid, the new Real workforce have burst in this season with the need to grow to be as massive as their male counterpart, based in 1902.
However, this ladies’ part has solely existed for 2 months since the formal absorption by the massive Madrid membership of the modest workforce of CD Tacon, which had existed since 2014 and had found the first feminine division final season.
In current months, Tacon had already began to realize momentum with gamers like Swedish internationals Kosovare Asllani and Sofia Jakobson, each in the prime 20 of the 2019 Ballon d’Or girls’s ultimate standings.
But because it formally wears the emblem of Real on its jersey, the workforce has consolidated with 9 recruits, together with the Spanish internationals Ivana Andrés and Marta Corredera or the Mexican worldwide Kenti Robles.
“Nobody likes to lose, let alone Florentino (Pérez, the president of Real Madrid) who has formed a team to stand up to the almighty Barça“, wrote columnist Patricia Campos in the day by day As.
Compete with the massive ones
CD Tacon completed tenth final season, reduce brief by the pandemic, and conceded the most targets in the competitors (48), with notable failures like the 9-1 and 6-0 inflicted by Barcelona. Humiliations that they’ll have the responsibility to keep away from this season to defend the merengue badge.
Coach David Aznar has the heavy job of making a synergy between the people inside this workforce which hopes to compete with Barça and Atlético, locomotives of Spanish girls’s soccer.
Real Madrid have “players with experience, others with a future, almost all of them international. It gives him a plus. It’s a project that must be mastered, but they are above the rest“, commented the former participant Sonia Bermudez in the columns of El Pais.
The workforce trains and performs at the males’s workforce’s coaching heart in Valdebebas, on the outskirts of Madrid, just a few meters from the Alfredo-Di-Stefano stadium, the place the males’s first workforce is at the moment enjoying, whereas continues the renovation of the Santiago-Bernabeu stadium.
And it’s in this sports activities heart that Madrid will obtain Barcelona, everlasting rival of Real on all fields, in soccer as in basketball.
“No one can miss a Real Madrid-Barça“, acknowledged the Spanish worldwide goalkeeper of Barcelona, Sandra Paños, saying to be cautious of the Madrilenians.”They have strengthened a lot with players in Spain and I think they can have a good season.“
“A very new team“
Real Madrid “is a completely new team, and they haven’t been able to play much yet, unlike us, who have kept almost the same team“She however warned on Barça’s web site.
Barcelona, for his or her half, have solely two rookies however the Catalan membership can rely on a strong block with personalities on all strains: from Paños in the cage, by Mapi Leon in protection and, in assault, the Dutch worldwide Lieke Martens and Spain’s Jenni Hermoso, prime scorer in the league final season with 23 targets in 19 matches.
The Catalan workforce will arrive in Madrid as a giant favourite, sturdy of its seniority and its observe report, together with 5 Ligas received, six Queen’s Cups and one Spanish Supercup.
Unhappy finalists of the 2019 Champions League towards Olympique Lyonnais, semi-finalists final season, the Barcelona girls additionally made an excellent preparation with spectacular outcomes akin to a 5-0 in Lleida. But as in all rivalries, it takes a first time …
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