The Spanish women's team eliminated the Swiss team in the quarterfinals of the Eurocup and advanced to the semifinals of the tournament for the first time for 28 years thanks to the goals of Athenea del Castillo and Claudia Pina in the second half. The Spanish team fired the host with a beautiful detail that will be marked in the history of this Eurocup.
It was more than beautiful the tribute provided by the players of the Spanish team to the Swiss. After finishing the game, and with the 2-0 in favor of Spacethe combined of Montse I took It was placed in the form of a hall to applaud the great work done by the players of the Swiss team.
A detail that has undoubtedly marked this Eurocup female and that makes a sport even bigger like football. Swiss She was the host and left everything on the field to try to eliminate the world champion in front of her fans. He did an almost perfect defensive job and was not far from being able to scare. The recognition by Spain was more than present.
👏The essence of football.
The beautiful corridor with which Spain fired Switzerland, hosts in this Eurocup and have planted the world champion a lot. #WEuro2025 #EurocopaRTVE pic.twitter.com/x5xjL9PwZb
– Tedeport (@teledporte) July 18, 2025
Space He had never exceeded a qualifying round in the Eurocup. In its recent history, it fell in the quarterfinals in Sweden 2013, Netherlands 2017 and England 2022. In the 1997 edition it reached the semifinals, but it passed directly from the group stage to the prelude to the final because there was no quarterfinals duel. They keep writing the story.
The world champions ended the dream of the host. Neither the courage of the Swiss soccer players accompanied by more than 26,000 Swiss followers nor the images of the victory of the male team over Spain in the 2010 World Cup groups was enough to end Spain, which exceeded the wall of the quarterfinals.
