The newspapers across the Channel pay tribute to the new European champions on Monday.
England has finally broken its long wait, since the 1966 World Cup won by the men, and it is to its women’s team that it owes it: “Football’s coming home”, the anthem unofficial national selections can finally be sung without irony.
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Inflicting on the Germans their first defeat in the final of a Euro (2-1, after extra time), they who have won 8 of the 13 editions, the “Lionesses” have finished conquering the heart of a country which has gradually caught in the game.
Three years after a 2019 World Cup in France which had already concretized the upward trajectory of women in football, and despite the Covid-19 pandemic that passed through there, the English Euro ends with an indisputable success.
A popular sporting and popular success as proven by the 87,192 spectators in the stands, far more than the record for a Men’s Euro match, 79,115, for the final of the 1964 edition between Spain, host country, and the USSR (2-1). But also the media coverage of the triumph of the “Lionesses” which made the headlines this Monday across the Channel.