Newsblog for the women’s European Championship
French woman frustrated: DFB team does not deserve it
Updated on July 20, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.Reading time: 6 min.
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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.
After the frustrating defeat in the EM elf-thriller against Germany, Frenchwoman Selma Bacha has not exactly shown herself fairly. “They didn’t offer anything, they defended well, they were aggressive, but we dominated them from A to Zent,” said the defender, according to the French sports newspaper. “You are qualified. I’m sorry to have to say, but not even deserve,” said the 24-year-old and admitted: “I am a bad loser”.
Vice captain Sakina Karchaoui was also stunned. “We are all frustrated. We can’t believe it,” said the 29-year-old. “We have to keep everything we did well, everything that combined and brought us together. It’s unfair, but what should I say?”
In his disappointment, coach Laurent Bonadei, who was supervised by the French team for a year, recognized the performance of the DFB team. “Germany was heroic. We have to take the hat off to this German team,” said the 55-year-old.
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,” reported Marion Daube, director of women’s football in the Swiss 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.