The faces of the players of the Spanish national team in the mixed zone, after the defeat to Brazil in the semifinals of the Olympic tournament, were a poem. Serious and depressed faces, some without finding comfort and broken by frustration and disappointment. An example was Kata Cole, always direct and honest, attended the media without being able to hold back tears. “First of all I want to ask for forgiveness. I think I was not at the team level. Sometimes it’s high and sometimes it’s low. I was touched by the bad part, but I’m proud of my people. I think they fought to the end to try to turn it around. I must apologize to my colleagues, everything is closed to me today. It wasn’t like that, but there is another important match left and we will try to get the bronze medal and Ujjal”.
A mistake from the goalkeeper led to Brazil’s first goal five minutes into the match. A bad clearance, a rebound on Priscilla and then on Paredes ended with the ball inside his goalkeeper. After that it was difficult for her to recover and she felt frustrated by the provocations of the Brazilians. “I think the competition in this team – Brazil-does not exist. It hurts because, besides, they are professional companions. But they’re playing that , it’s their game, and they shouldn’t have taken us out of the game. I must admit that he sometimes knocked me out. But already. The party, personally, is to be forgotten”.
The goalkeeper’s anger is reflected on her face , as he finishes the match without the mask that protects her nose from the fracture she suffers in the area. “I took off my mask in the locker room out of anger, and then I didn’t even remember. I’m sorry, I apologize to my colleagues, to amateurs. I wasn’t today, it’s the truth, but we have an important match left and I hope I can win it”. Spain will have three days before facing Germany in the bronze duel. “We have three days. This is already. We won’t sleep much today. Being da difficult, but Spain is here, Spain is still and we will go for that bronze. Let no one doubt that we will fight for it”.
Irene Paredes: “here we lose and win together”
The captain of the selection also stands at a difficult time for selection. “It’s a very difficult time. We weren’t good, it wasn’t a good match. The first goal gives them wings. It could happen, but we were not fluent, we did not generate opportunities. They made the match they wanted and on top of that they found themselves with that first goal. Then we already knew what they would do, wasting time and fake injuries. And when they let you do that, you start breaking the rhythm of the game, you become a little desperate and it ends like this, ” condemns the Barcelona player. “The competition is in very few days and requires a lot on a physical level as we already know. For them too. It’s normal not to be as fresh as possible, but the team was fine. We did some good things, but we let them get to us more often. There were a lot of mistakes, we were born very little. Moreover, two counterattacks and two mistakes, to score four goals in the semifinals is very difficult”.
The midfielder, who got the first goal in his goal, was replaced in the 52nd minute , although she said that she did not feel sealed and called for teamwork. “You already like to look for the culprits. Here we lose and win together. There were mistakes of all kinds and also things that were done well. Today it’s time to lose, you need to know how to lose. It’s frustrating to play against some sports rules, but what we can do is play football and do things right, and that’s where we have to focus,”he said.
Jenny Hermoso: “it doesn’t end here”
Jenny Hermoso, who returned to play as a starter against Brazil, did not leave the iron for defeat, but wanted to put PAOs hemidus in the wound hot. “What do we call failure? In this life, you will not achieve everything that you set in mind. Football as it is, one is up and one is down. She tries to give the maximum, but we were not right. It’s not that we need to train a lot of things, because today we were not in the semifinals, for which a medal was guaranteed; a dream we are very close to and today we are 50-50, ” revealed La madrilia. “What every player wants is to play and I try to give the maximum whenever I play. Today I completed the match, things didn’t go well and I fucked up because the team didn’t win, but we had a very nice year and it doesn’t end today, ” Adi.
The highest historical scorer of the choice, by veteran, experience and character, to be one of those who have to raise the minimum of the locker room. “Tonight to digest that, to rest everything and there are two days left for a match in which we cannot make the mistakes we made today . It’s another match and we are still fighting for something very beautiful, for a bronze medal that is difficult to get”.
