Photo: imago images / Michael Erichsen
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Gothenburg. When things don’t go well with men, women are there in football to pull the cart out of the mud. On the day when the stars of FC Barcelona around the Argentine Lionel Messi finally lost the Spanish championship with a 2-1 defeat against Celta Vigo, a few hours later the Catalan women won their first championship title in Gothenburg, 2000 kilometers away League. They defeated Chelsea FC in the final 4-0 (4-0) and were crowned the new queens of European football in the confetti rain.
The Londoners, with Melanie Leupolz and Ann-Katrin Berger, two German national players in the team, got under the wheels in the first half. Not only did Leupolz fail to break free after 30 seconds, which landed in his own goal. It also caused a dubious penalty, which Alexia Putellas (14th) safely converted. Aitana Bonmati (21st) and Caroline Graham Hansen (36th) then made the decision in favor of Barcelona.
For the first time, the women’s title went to Spain. In the previous 13 years, only teams from Germany and France had won the Champions League. nd
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