Future open – leaves trainer Pia Sundhage Switzerland?

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Future open: leaves starting trainer Sundhage Switzerland?

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Switzerland has been the center of European football since July 2. For the first time, the country expects a European women’s championship. 16 national teams compete against each other in eight cities to win the continental title.

The future of the successful national coach Pia Sundhage in Switzerland is also open after the end of the home European Championship. “Everything is possible in all directions,” said Marion Daube, responsible for women in the National Football Association SFV, on Saturday morning during the conclusion. Sundhage asked for time to “process many impressions”. The Swede has a contract until the end of the year.

The tournament from which the Swiss people said goodbye to the world champion Spain on Friday evening with a 0-2 in the quarter -finals against the world champion Spain as a great success. “We won a new audience during this tournament,” said SFV President Dominique Blanc. “People who normally come into the stadium who have hardly been interested in football so far. Many children and families.”

Sundhage looks back on her term with great satisfaction. “I am very proud of what we have done in the past year and a half,” said the 65-year-old, who led the United States to two Olympic wins. “It is very difficult to change a person in Switzerland – we did it with our football team.” Her players “were deeply disappointed and sad, but danced at night”.

Sara Däbritz is the France expert in the German team-and can possibly provide her teammates before the European Championship quarter-finals with important tips. “Of course I know many of the girls and know how they play. I already have a special connection to some players,” said the 30-year-old of the sports show. But: In the game on Saturday (from 9 p.m. in the T-online live ticker) there is “friendship only after the final whistle-and only then the conversations again,” she added.

Däbritz, who has already worn the jersey of Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyon and will play for Real Madrid from summer, expects “very dynamic” and “technically experienced” French with a “quick switching game”. Everyone in the German team knows “the strengths of France. We totally have to hold up and bring our strengths to the square,” she said: “In the end we have to want it more than France.”

So far, Däbritz had only come to a short assignment in the last group game against Sweden (1: 4). Against France, the 2013 European champion and Olympic champion in 2016 could be given a more important role. At least that’s what the “picture” reports. According to this, the experienced midfielder (109 international matches), alongside Elisa Sense and Sjoeke Nüsken, is to get to the center right from the start.