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Jarell Quansah completes Bayer Leverkusen transfer
In another switch information, Liverpool have confirmed the departure of Jarell Quansah. The defender joins Bayer Leverkusen in a £30million deal.
After signing a everlasting contract with Arsenal, Chloe Kelly mentioned: “Placing pen to paper on a everlasting contract at Arsenal is a standout second for me. Studying from an unimaginable supervisor and persevering with to construct relationships with a superb staff is a journey I’m trying ahead to persevering with.
“I’m excited for extra silverware at this particular membership and to convey extra trophies again to North London to rejoice with our supporters. I’ve at all times mentioned that Arsenal supporters are the most effective and to have them on my aspect, singing my identify, means a lot to me.”
Arsenal signal Chloe Kelly
Arsenal have formally confirmed the everlasting signing of Chloe Kelly following the 27-year-old’s mortgage spell. Kelly joins the Gunners in a free switch following her departure from Manchester Metropolis.
Mark Bennett is on his option to Basel for tonight’s match between Switzerland and Norway. He’s volunteering at this 12 months’s event:
“Simply on practice to Basel from my house village in Switzerland. Off to my first Volunteer shift and questioning how I’ll survive exterior St Jakob Park at 35°.
“It’s 17 years since I did identical for Males’s Euros in 2008 and there’s a nice vibe constructing right here. Will ramp up with German/ French neighbours go to for video games plus all of the native Portuguese inhabitants and the mad Dutch. Fan marches deliberate tonight for each Swiss and Norwegian followers too..
“Can’t wait!”
Sion Lane has messaged in to reward Wales on their European Championship debut:
“I’m heading out to Switzerland with my 10-year-old daughter later within the month to assist Wales in opposition to England. The progress this Wales staff have made underneath Rhian Wilkinson is genuinely thrilling, and the best way the FAW have engaged with followers and the broader neighborhood by the ‘For Her’ program has been actually inspiring. At a current huddle my daughter acquired to fulfill a great deal of the staff, and I had an opportunity to talk with the supervisor. They are surely constructing a neighborhood.”
Emma Hayes answered a few of your questions final week. The US girls’s nationwide staff head coach revealed what meals she misses most from England, her ideas on Arsenal’s current Champions League win and whether or not or not she would handle England in the future…
Nonetheless want a wallchart for the event however do not know the place to get one? Look no additional, we’ve acquired you lined. David Squires has completed it once more!
Aitana Bonmati was discharged from hospital on the weekend after present process therapy for viral meningitis. She arrived on the Spain staff resort on Monday night and accomplished some health club work on Tuesday earlier than returning to the pitch for extra particular person coaching.
Though she is now again with the squad, it’s presently unclear if she’s going to characteristic in Spain’s opening Euro 2025 match in opposition to Portugal tomorrow.
Jonathan Liew
The narrative arc of ladies’s soccer in Switzerland is a well-recognized one: from apathy to hostility to mockery to inertia to vary. Now the nation will host one of many largest occasions within the sporting calendar…
Talking of predictions, you’ll want to let me know your picks for;
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Event winners
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Finalists
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Prime goalscorer
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Participant of the event
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Darkish horse
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Breakthrough star
Predictions, anybody? Our writers out in Switzerland have had their say…
For the structure lovers on the market – or simply these with an curiosity in soccer stadiums – right here is our full information to each floor that can be used for Euro 2025 over the following month:
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We’re fortunate sufficient to have legendary Chelsea supervisor, WSL icon and United States girls’s nationwide staff head coach Emma Hayes on board as a columnist over the following few weeks. Here’s what she needed to say in her first column final week…
As at all times, I wish to hear from you right now! Be happy to e-mail me or Matchdaylive@theguardian.com along with your plans for the opening day of the Euros. Are you out in Switzerland? Or are you presently sat within the workplace desperately making an attempt to chill down by fanning your self with an outdated little bit of paperwork as a result of it’s nonetheless extremely heat right here within the UK?
Additionally, let me know who you’ll be supporting, which staff you assume will take the crown on the finish of the month, and which gamers you’re most excited to look at.
The Guardian Soccer staff have been extremely busy over the previous couple of weeks placing collectively options, interviews and staff guides to see you all by the event. Let me first level you within the path of this completely mammoth information to all 368 gamers showing at Euro 2025 this month.
Here’s what we’ve acquired to stay up for on this opening day…
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Iceland v Finland
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Switzerland v Norway
Preamble
It’s lastly right here! Ladies’s Euro 2025 kicks off TODAY in Switzerland and I, for one, can not wait. Iceland and Finland start proceedings this afternoon earlier than the host nation faces Norway in Group A. We’ve nonetheless acquired loads of time till then so I’ll be with you all day counting all the way down to the curtain-raiser at Stockhorn Enviornment.
With out additional ado, let’s go!