Norway came back to a goal by defeating hosts Switzerland 2–1 in her opening match of the women’s Euro 2025 football tournament on Wednesday night.
Switzerland, who started brightly in front of an energetic Saint Zakb-Park crowd, led Half-Time through Nadin Ricen’s 28th minute strike, which went into the post.
But in Norway, 1995, World Cup winners scored twice in five minutes to refuse the start of Swiss in their home tournament.
Norwegian star striker Eda Hagarberg led a corner from a corner after 54 minutes, before Julia Sterili completed her own goal five minutes later.
Earlier on Wednesday, Fellow Group A Teams Iceland and Finland opened competition in Thun city, in which Finses ran 1-0 winners for the 70th minute Katrina Kosola’s attempt.
Sixteen teams are competing in the month-long championships in cities-Basel, Burn, Geneva, Lucene, Sion, Saint Galen, Thun and Zurich, which lasts until 27 July.
The final will be held on July 27 in Basel at St. Jakb-Park in Switzerland, the largest stadium in Switzerland.
Who are the favorite?
The World Cup finalist Spain and England are widely seen as two of the top contenders for the Crown.
England’s lioness is the defending champion, who removed the World Cup by the men’s team in 1966.
His historic euro won in 2022 after postponing the tournament due to the epidemic. He reached the 2023 World Cup final but decreased against Spain.
Germany, another power plant, wants to aim to recover the dominance. After losing to England in additional time in the final of 2022, Germany will see to add their remarkable records of six consecutive euro tyloles from 1995 to 2013.
The German women’s team has won eight out of a total of 13 European finals and also placed two World Cup trophies.
Record number of women coaches
Women now lead to seven of the 16 teams competing in Euro 2025 – this is 43.75% – Euro 2013 faster than 18.75% in 2013. By 2017, the ratio has almost doubled and the 2022 tournament has a consecutive impod since 37.5% intelligence.
Despite the advances, male coaches still have a slight numerical benefit in this year’s euro.
Success has not been a hindrance for women in top jobs. Between the 2000 and 2023 Women’s World Cups, every major international women’s football tournament-world Cup, Euro and Olympic-What won a female-coach team, except Japan’s 2011 World Cup victory under Norio Sasaki, to break the only male coach trend.
Footballs relax major rules amid summer wave
The tournament began as Europe was cooked under a so -called “heat dome”, between record temperatures in the continent and warm weather warnings for many areas.
The UEFA has rested the stadium safety regulations so that fans can bring half-liter water bottles in the midst of a summer wave in Switzerland, with temperate with temperate with approximately 35 ° C (95 ° Fahetheit). Cooling brakes can be used if needed during sports.
Jennifer Camino edited by Gonzalez
