It’s one year, to the day, that Spain won the World Cup in Australia.
Here is the full game, if one would feel inclined to watch it back.
Since then, Mariona Caldentey has played 65 games of football, 67 if counting from when the article was written, and now she’s just joined her new team Arsenal on their US on pre-season tour.
^ Funnily enough it was Caldentey’s tireless work down that left-hand flank in the semifinal game against Sweden that won Spain the 89th minute corner from which they would score the winning goal.
Sweden had a centerback who was third Golden Boot race AND tied for player of the match winner with Golden Boot-winner Hinata Miyazawa (three each), a goalkeeper with lightning reflexes, a Lina Hurtig who somehow had the tournament of her life and Rebecka Blomqvist who just got the job done on multiple occasions — but it was not enough to topple a Spain who was simply destined to win.
Because the win, with everything that came with it, meant exposing these rotten systems that have been in place, and the work could start looking for other solutions.