A crowd of Spanish fans celebrated on Tuesday night the victory of yours selection regarding the Francewhich will allow ‘Roja’ to fight for the title of Eurocup not next Sunday.
“We are the best!” celebrated Nieves Maseda, an unemployed 25-year-old woman who was walking through the Madrid Río area, in the south of the Spanish capital, where authorities had installed a big screen to watch the game being played in Munich.
“I’m not surprised, because from the first moment I said that Spain would go to the final and that we would be champions,” the woman, who had a Spanish flag tied around her waist, told AFP.
🤷🏻♂️ Sorry, but no.
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“We are very excited, we deserve it. The final is ours, 100% ours. We are the best team in the whole Euro,” said Ángela Vicente, a 22-year-old student wearing a Spain shirt.
Thousands of people gathered in front of the big screen on the banks of the Manzanares River, where they celebrated with shouts and hugs each of the two goals scored by their team, which beat France 2-1.
Lamine Yamal’s goal, a 25-meter shot into the top corner of goalkeeper Mike Maignan’s net to level the score at 1-1, was celebrated by the euphoric crowd, jumping and shouting and even lighting flares, according to AFPTV footage.
In the final minutes of the match, the fans shouted “Olé!” every time the Spanish team touched the ball, and before the climax, hundreds of cell phones were raised to capture images of the joy that took over the crowd at the final whistle. “I’m very happy, the truth is that I expected it. We were better,” celebrated Álvaro Manjón, a 39-year-old airline crew member.
“In the final! You have an entire country behind you. Come on, Spain!” wrote the president of the government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, on social media. X (old Twitter).
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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