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Tom Garry
For a nation with a inhabitants of 10 million, with a males's nationwide facet that didn't high quality for 3 of the previous 4 World Cups, Sweden have a observe file in girls's soccer that belongs to a sporting superpower.
Sweden completed third at three of the previous 4 Ladies's World Cups and are five-time World Cup semi-finalists. In addition they claimed the silver medal on the Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo Olympics. In Europe, their success is much more constant and so they stand one win from a tenth European semi-final once they meet England in Zurich on Thursday. Their males's nationwide facet has not reached a world or European semi-final for greater than 30 years.
England defender Lucy Bronze has stated:
Each different staff needs to duplicate what England did in 2022, what the Netherlands did earlier than us, and actually increase girls's soccer and we all know that success comes from that. We all know that we're very lucky in England that when we now have success it actually does explode the sport and I feel it's what we would like throughout Europe and everywhere in the world.
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One quarter-final has already been performed and it noticed Italy beat Norway to progress to the final 4 at a girls's main event for the primary time since 1997. They would be the opponent for whoever wins tonight's match and you may make amends for all of the motion from final night time's quarter-final right here:
Preamble
Whats up and welcome to the Euro 2025 quarter-final between Sweden and defending champions England.
The Lionesses had a bumpy begin to their marketing campaign however completed the group stage strongly to achieve the final eight, whereas Sweden have recorded three wins from three up to now.
It's set to be a good match with the nations among the many favourites to win your complete event. The sport is a repeat of the Euro 2022 semi-final the place England beat Sweden 4-0 however the scoreline is just not set to be as one-sided this time round.
Earlier than the staff information drops at round 6.45pm BST, we will check out what has been stated within the build-up and large information from across the event. Let's go.
