Newsblog for the women’s European Championship
DFB captain Gwinn wears lucky charms in the sports bra
Updated on June 25th, 2025 – 7:10 p.m.Reading time: 4 min.
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In July, Switzerland becomes the center of European football. 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.
After her two cruciate ligament tears, DFB captain Giulia Gwinn runs at the European Championship with a special lucky charm. Her mother “sewn a little heart into the sports bra, and I am now wearing it at all games-and of course also at the European Championship,” said the 25-year-old before the tournament in Switzerland in the podcast “Phrasenmäher”.
Gwinn had suffered the first serious knee injury in 2020. “It was the worst moment I’ve ever experienced in football. It came out of nowhere,” said the international. In 2022 she tore the cruciate ligament again in DFB training and thus missed the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand two years ago with the national team.
Her mother was “very superstitious and wanted to give me something that protects me and what I have on the pitch,” said Gwinn: “Of course, due to the regulations, this is not so easy.”
The Swiss footballers around their star player Alisha Lehmann collected a 1-7 defeat against the U15 boys of FC Luzern in a secret test before the home European home championship, which started on July 2.
As the Swiss “Blick” reported, pictures and a video appeared on the Tikok platform, which the women’s team showed in the friendly against the Junior team of Lucerne. The only goal scored Alayah Pilgrim, who, like Lehmann (26/16.7 million followers on Instagram and 12 million on Tikkok), could be seen in the now deleted video. Read more about this here.
A Spanish Court of Appeal confirmed the conviction of former Spanish football leader Luis Rubiales on Wednesday due to an imposed kiss. The class was “correct” to classify the incident as a “sexual assault” when convicting in the first instance. Rubiales did not have the approval of the player Jennifer Hermoso to kiss them.
Rubiales had packed the player’s head with both hands at the award ceremony after the women’s World Cup final in 2023 in front of running television cameras in front of running television cameras. According to Hermosos, this was done against her will. The then President of the Spanish Football Association, on the other hand, stated that the kiss was mutually acceptable.
In the end, the court near Madrid Rubiales condemned a penalty last month for 10,800 euros. In addition, the court only had the Hermoso, which was not nominated for the Spanish squad at the European Championship in Switzerland, only to 200 meters and not communicate with her for a year. The Court of Appeal also confirmed this judgment on Wednesday. The Court of Appeal rejected the allegation that the judge was not referred to.