Esther Gonzalez was selected in the first squad for the Spanish National Soccer Team’s Women’s European Championship. The tournament will take place in England between July 6 and 31. There will be a final at Wembley. The forward from Granada has just completed her first season at Real Madrid, at the age 29. She was part of a shortlist that included 28 players. Five were discarded, and seven more attackers were added to the list: Jenni Hermoso from FC Barcelona and Athenea Del Castillo from Real Madrid, Marta Cardona from Real Madrid, and Lucia Pina from Athletic. Salma Paralluelo from Villarreal.
Next Sunday, June 12, the woman from Granada will concentrate with her fellow teammates at Ciudad del Futbol Las Rozas. This preparation phase will begin with a friendly against Australia at Nuevo Colombino, Huelva on the 25th. Spain will share Group B with Denmark, Finland, and Germany at the European Championship. The results will be determined on July 8th, 12th, and 16th, respectively. Esther Gonzalez, a Huescar native, finished the season with 14 goals in 27 matches to help Real Madrid finish third behind Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona. They qualified for the Champions League for their second consecutive edition of the Champions League after they were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Final against FC Barcelona (1-3, 5-2).
She was the protagonist in the classification of this next Eurocopa’s Spanish Women’s National Team -she made a return to Azerbaijan with eight goals to match Jenni Hermoso’s ten -Esther Gonzalez was not included in the 2013 edition, before she debuting in 2016 as a senior. In 2017, she didn’t have any minutes, but she was called up. She was again eliminated from the World Cup in France 2019. She is determined to attend the European Championship in England this time.