Spain 2-0 Switzerland: 11 Barça players will play in the Euro Cup semi-finals

For the first time in history, the Spanish Women's National Football Team has sealed its ticket to the semi-finals of the Euro Cup. It has done so with authority, precision... and with 11 players from FC Barcelona in its squad. It is not only a national triumph, but an exhibition of the training muscle of the culé team, which has turned La Masia into a kind of Renaissance academy of modern football.

Euro Cup: Summary of Spain 2-0 Switzerland

The team led by Montse Tomé has firmly defeated (2-0) the host Switzerland, in a duel that was both a match and a declaration of intent. Sydney Schertenleib, also from Barcelona but with a Swiss jersey, was a starter and direct witness to the Spanish steamroller that, this time, came painted in blaugrana.

Barça everywhere

Cata Coll between the posts. Batlle and Irene Paredes commanding the defense. Aitana and Patri articulating the midfield as if choreographing a Bach fugue. Alexia Putellas setting the pause, Claudia Pina the gunpowder, and Laia Aleixandri the security.

Vicky López and Salma Paralluelo also entered the field, both in the 77th minute. Only Jana Fernández was left without minutes, but her presence on the list is already another symptom of Barcelona's dominance.

It is curious, or perhaps inevitable, that the team that has conquered Europe at club level is also the one that leads the national team. As if the national team were a natural extension of a game philosophy, a way of understanding the ball as art rather than as a job.

The match: surgical precision and overflowing talent

Spain dominated with poise and elegance, like someone who knows that the clock is running in their favor. The goals of Athenea del Castillo and Claudia Pina defied Switzerland, which became even stronger thanks to the more than 25,000 souls who did not stop cheering on the 'nati'.

Neither the two penalties missed by Mariona and Alexia prevented the Spanish team from finding the key in the second half of the match. The first goal came in the 66th minute, after an intelligent recovery by Patri Guijarro and a surgical assist from Aitana Bonmatí, which Athenea del Castillo converted with cold blood.

Five minutes later, Claudia Pina scored the second with a shot from outside the area that left the Swiss stadium frozen, as if the Swiss winter had come early.

A challenge ahead... and a story to write

Now, Spain awaits a rival from France - Germany, which will be played this Saturday at 9:00 p.m., and which we can follow from Teledeporte and RTVE Play. The semi-final will be on Wednesday, and more than a match, it is shaping up as a maturity test for a group that has already shown that the present belongs to them, even if the past has been elusive.

Women's Euro Cup 2025: All the results of Spain

Group B

• Spain 5-0 Portugal
• Spain 6-2 Belgium
• Italy 1-3 Spain

Quarterfinals

• Spain 2-0 Switzerland

Semifinals

• Wednesday, July 23, 9:00 p.m., Spain vs France/Germany

There is irony in the fact that, for decades, Spanish women's football lived on the sidelines, like an ignored melody. Today, however, that same melody resonates in European stadiums like a triumphant symphony. Because if before there were doubts about its potential, now we can only talk about its destiny.

History does not usually give second chances, but this generation —with golden boots and hearts of steel— has decided to write its own from scratch. And from what has been seen, it is doing it in capital letters.