Day program Ek | Not host country Switzerland, but open Iceland and Finland

Day program Ek | Not host country Switzerland, but open Iceland and Finland

Not host country Switzerland, but Iceland and Finland are kicking off the Women’s European Championship today. The Swiss will be in action later in the day against Norway. This is the program for day 1 of the European Championship.

6:00 PM: Iceland-Finland (Thun)

Iceland and Finland have the honor of kicking off the European Championship. Anyone expecting a big opening show will be disappointed. Iceland and Finland are playing in a small stadium in Thun, which can hold less than ten thousand people.

Iceland may be a small sporting country, but the country has been a regular participant in the European Championship in recent years. Finland even reached the semi-finals twenty years ago, but in the last editions, the Finns have not been able to make a splash. The team lost the friendly against Oranje 2-1 last week.

Player to watch: Sveindís Jónsdóttir (24) is one of the few players who played for a European top club last season. The fast attacker from VfL Wolfsburg became the first Icelander to score in the Champions League at the end of last year. Next season she will be active in the United States.

9:00 PM: Switzerland-Norway (Basel)

Football-loving Switzerland has been looking forward to this moment for two years: the first match of the host country in a sold-out St. Jakob-Park in Basel. It should be the national highlight in women’s football. With two-time European champion Norway (1987 and 1993), the team immediately faces a formidable opponent.

Switzerland could use a success, because the results in a major tournament are not good. The Swiss participated in a European Championship twice and did not survive the group stage either time. At the 2023 World Cup, the country finally reached the round of 16.

Player to watch: She is probably not in the starting lineup, but the Swiss Alisha Lehmann (26) is actually world famous for her life outside the lines. The attacker from Juventus has almost 17 million followers on Instagram, making her the most popular female footballer in the world on social media. The big question is whether she can also steal the show on the football field in Switzerland.

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