spain had never won a knock out game at a major tournament before. and this is what it meant to the supporters, with the fiesta in auckland continuing late into the night. spain s progress to the final is all the more extraordinary when you consider the dysfunction and controversy behind the scenes. it s less than a year since 15 spanish players staged a revolt against coachjorge vilda, who remains in charge, with strong complaints about his training methods and inadequate game preparation amongst other issues. just three of the players who complained were brought back into the squad. our reporter maz farookhi is in auckland and spoke to me a short while ago about this. what s really sad regardless of this run to the finals at some of the best players that could be playing international football in the colours of spain are here. two huge players for barcelona hoping to lift
spain are world cup finalists! that it has been some journey. spain s build up had been chaotic after some players called on the coach to be sacked. but he has now led them to the final and the question now is who will face them? andy swiss, bbc news. it s less than a year since 15 spanish players staged a revolt against coachjorge vilda, who remains in charge, with strong complaints about his training methods and inadequate game preparation amongst other issues. just three of the players who complained were brought back into the squad. our reporter maz farookhi is in auckland. what s really sad regardless of this run to the finals that some of the best players that could be playing international football in the colours of spain are here. are not here. two huge players for barcelona hoping to lift
reach a first ever world cup final? that s the big question for them is a titanic class, huge anticipation here in australia everyone getting behind the local team, the matilda s photo it will be an awesome challenge that england face. there is a feeling if walsh and her team mates can find form they can do the business and breach of first ever world cup final. reach of world cup final. if if england can win. then it ll be either spain or sweden that await in sunday s final. both those sides play tomorrow morning in new zealand. spain, who had so many question marks over them going into the tournament, are in theirfirst world cup semi final. for sweden, it s their fifth, they re hoping to go one better than four years ago when they lost at this stage. our reporter maz farookhi is in auckland for us. we are down to the business end of this tournament now. the final match in new zealand is going to be played here in eden park behind me on tuesday. the semifinal between spain and s
they ve been impressive so far in attempting to reach to reach this year s final, too, but so have spain. maz farookhi is in wellington. we re down to the last eight now. the first quarterfinal will be played between the 2017 champions the netherlands, beaten 2019 world cup finalists as well. and spain. we re expecting and hoping it to be a very competitive match. the netherlands will be without one of their most important players, danielle van de d. and what about spain? they have looked pretty impressive. van de donk. there was one defeat to japan. she has they have already qualified. jorge knows the match tomorrow is going to be a challenge. translation: theyr be a challenge. translation: they are a very solid be a challenge. translation: they
but it could be good news for teams like england, as katie gornall explains. what this means for england potentially is that it opens up that side of the draw for them because they were on course to meet germany in either the quarterfinals or the semi finals if they got that far. and like it or not, for the players and the manager, this is now going to increase the expectations around this england team that they can go all the way in this tournament. of course, for the england camp, they are very much focused on the next game. they are taking it one game at a time. they won t want to look past nigeria. there has been so many shocks and upset in this tournament well, the round of tournament 16 gets underway tomorrow. so so far, england will be determined to avoid another one in brisbane on monday. maz farookhi looks ahead to the first day of knock out games. auckland is going to her spain against saints land. we are here in