10 things we learned from the women’s European football European: from the words of the CT Soncin to the excellent Switzerland

Three days after the end of theFemale football European The legacy of this edition is something indelible if you are good at taking advantage of it. With a great Italian protagonist up to a minute from an “impossible” final on the eve, every national team, every game plot, every sigh outside of the green rectangle, every tear on those crowded stands, have been able to tell stories more similar to “great life lessons”. And then let’s make a Recap, let’s try to put 10 things black on white we have learned from this passionate European football football.

You cannot always win

It cannot always be won, that obviousness. Many times it is lost, most. It is a concept that we already knew, but it is never enough to repeat it because the focus in a society like the one in which we live, where you have always pushed towards the over performance in every area, where it only counts to be the best, the strongest, to be the first, it is something that distracts from the ability of being, simple, itself. And instead once again we understood that you cannot always win. And it does not only concern Italy, it is clear, it concerns the 15 participating nations, it concerns Spain, favored on the eve, and which instead saw the dream of climbing the roof of Europe for the first time in its history to the guillotine of the penalty kicks, but they have well from being happy, just like the other teams, if returning home they have not had regrets.

The beauty of women’s football

Women’s football is also beautiful. Beautiful in a subjective way, it is clear, but beautiful, beautiful, at times extraordinary. In this European we had to do with those who already knew him, who has always followed him, who have been very little and who even discovered him just a month ago. But once again the subjective beauty is unquestionably respectable. And so they deserve respect for the Over 4 million spectators tuned to Rai in front of the semifinal England and Italyand the 10.2 million spectators who followed the same challenge in the English land deserve it. In addition to the necessary respect, this “subjective beautiful” would deserve a few more chances and a different consideration.

The extended female

The use of the extended female. A lot has been talked about. Mister Soncin used it in every interview, in all press conferences, always. I don’t know if it has resorted to some communication lessons in order not to make a mistake in the media approach, if it was a spontaneous and genuine choice, perhaps the assumed result of a path that has lasted for two years now, in any case Chapeau. Even the lexicon and grammar have a specific weight in these contexts where you have never dreamed of us to use the first plural person aimed at female. The need, I believe, is to force certain things, to trace the road should always be meritocracy, the important thing is to be aware of what is said.

The team spirit

We have (re) learned, the team spirit. For a long time, Italy was not seen so united in the face of football match, because in one way or another this sport loves it almost all the boot especially when the blue of the national team prevails, yet the period remarks the great difficulties of a football that can no longer excel, and that almost has made criticisms took over the wonder, on talent. Here, Italy still knows how to be compact in front of its tricolor, this Women Euro 2025 has shown it.

Age does not count

Dreaming has no age. Cristiana Girelli 35 years oldhe was on the edge of this project a couple of years ago, he made resilience a mantra of life and, above all, he found himself ready, dragging with him, in those blessed dreams, even the youngest, even the youngest, Emma Severini born in 2002 And all the other companions who are in the middle (Eva Schatzer is also a 2002 class but has never made his debut in this European). The numbers, among other things, speak of a future in which these athletes will dictate the times, to leave a mark. Out of a total of 368 athletes called up, 64 were under 23: almost one in five (17.4%) and of these, almost 80%(79.7%) played at least one game (source lfootball). But it’s not just a speech that embraces the footballers: the whole of Italy has dreamed of or has returned to do it. From the Casalinga di Voghera, to the boy who takes the provincial camps and who has fascinated the event, to the hundreds of people present in Nuvolera, a town of Cristiana Girelli, in front of the big screen. In short, many almost all perhaps. There is a need to dream, even more those who think they don’t need it. Dreaming is still a verb that conjugated to infinity gives you the dimension of the unattainable but leads you to perceive the essence of life … in chaos, to save you, they are always and only dreams.

The silver medal

The importance of not taking away a silver medal after a burning defeatburns inside a soul in which everything let the happy ending presage. For info, ask Atana Bonmatì, twice the golden ball, Stella in a Spain with a rich constellation, which after having made a mistake one of the decisive penalties in the final, rose on the stage of the award ceremony, and was awarded the second classified recognition. That alive silver raised him with pride, as if to emphasize the path that led her and her companions to there, as if not to forget the sacrifices and fears, including a meningitis a few days after the tournament that seemed to have definitively relegated her to the pits. Instead, Bonmatì has not only been decisive on the field, not only was he elected Player of the Tournament, has once again shown what it means to go beyond the defeat and remarked the fabric of the champion also in those details with a invaluable value.

That Switzerland

Switzerland lesson: you can organize large events on repeatable models, made of sustainability and avant -garde. Traffic lights with the light players, parks decorated with a party with biodegradable paintings, full stadiums, free transporta set of choices that push towards the possibility of realizing great things by keeping up with the times, if you really want it.

Equal opportunities

We learned that the road to equal opportunities is still long, but we already knew, it counts, however, to insist with certain projects, on culture and on training: in the face of the comments Beceri, sometimes, it is necessary to turn their backs to ensure that they do not take over, but to work on a system that eradicates patriarchal culture is the only way. And it is viable.

The happy ending

The truthfulness of happy ending stories. They exist, and this time you have to dwell on the story of Ann-Katrin Berger, goalkeeper of Germany who defeated two tumors (2017 and 2022) and which has returned to the field not only to conduct his Germany in the semifinal to the sound of stratospheric interventions, but also to demonstrate to herself that sometimes the second possibilities come, with patience, strength and much more … just knowing how to grasp them.

Record

Finally we learned that the records also have a certain specific weight: 128 million turnover, more than double compared to 2022, 657,291 appearances in the stands (in England 574,875) and blah blah blah, are not only numbers, they are the clearest signal that no further back there is no further back.