- Despite an extremely difficult group -the most high of the competition -, the French team made a flawlessness in the first round of Euro 2025 and validated its ticket for the quarter -finals.
- Appointed player of the match at the end of the two shocks against England (2-1) and the Netherlands (5-2), Delphine Cascarino largely contributed to this first part of the successful tournament.
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Football: The Blue on the EURO 2025
A “masterclass” to come back in full light. Passed by moments of doubt and less well in recent years, especially in selection, Delphine Cascarino has shone in a thousand lights on Sunday July 13, distilling a decisive pass then scoring two goals -notably a striking jewel in full skylight -to wear the French team to victory against the Netherlands (5-2). Relatively discreet during the first act, the elusive Ailière (78 selections) showed when the locker room returns why it remains one of the greatest talents on the football planet. Sharp accelerations, multiplication of races, leg passages, realism in the area of truth … She has spread all her qualities to improve a tricolor collective decidedly convincing since the start of Euro 2025 (three victories, second best attack with 11 scored goals).
“I had very few balloons to operate in the first half, I freed myself and I gave the maximum to help the team”,
She reacted to the final whistle, after receiving the match trophy from the match, the second already since arriving in Switzerland. “We grew up as a team”
she said, preferring to focus on convincing copies of the French in recent months.
The “Dragster” found its engine in San Diego
However, something seems to have changed to “DD”, who had warned that she would have “The rage of wanting to do something in this
Euro
“
After missing the World Cup. From the height of 28 years, she brings all her experience, her liveliness and her technical qualities to rejuvenated blue. After having delivered two caviars to her teammates, the native of Saint-Priest ended her two-year-old scar without scoring in the selection, with the manner. “She put very pretty goals and a fantastic pass”
Holes the coach Laurent Bonadei. The technician, who places the players of corridor at the center of his tactical device, sees in his n.20 a “dragster”
at whom “You have to light the fire a bit to
(reveal) all the potential “.
6 – Delphine Cascarino was involved on at least 3 goals in the same selection for the 6th time, at least twice more than any other player in France over the past 10 years. Cascade. Pic.twitter.com/gwyhjhjaly – Optajean (@optajean) July 13, 2025
This return to the top for the one who was part of the XI FIFA of the year 2020, coincides with his departure across the Atlantic. After having known everything with OL, her lifelong club, Delphine Cascarino decided to pack her suitcases for the San Diego Wave, in NWSL. “If I want to improve myself, I need to take risks and change”,
she recently declared in an interview to “The Women’s game
“
. “It was time for me to change their life, to live other things and to try an experience abroad”
she still told “Telefoot” before the Euro kicks off.
I think I run much more
I think I run much more
Delphine Cascarino
The wader says he came out “Greater”
and emphasize a “Very competitive championship, […] with a bigger rhythm
(that in D1 arkema) And where all the matches are difficult “
. With three goals and five assists (best total) in the championship this season, it is one of the new attractions of what observers describe as the most raised championship in women’s football. But at the same time, Estelle’s twin sister emphasizes her physical progress, and especially in terms of cardio and ability to repeat efforts. “I think I run much more”,
She comments soberly. On Sunday, she thus brought a real nightmare to life to her vis-Ã -vis Kerstin Casparij, the Manchester City defender eventually exploding in front of her undermining work.
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Stunning against the Netherlands, France validates its qualification for the quarter-finals of Euro 2025
From now on, it is a question of confirming this good form in the quarterfinals against Germany (Saturday July 19, 9 p.m., live on TF1 and live commented on TF1info), “A very large nation, which eliminated (the blue) in the semi-finals during the last euro”.
A great meeting that the old Lyonnaise approaches with appetite, saying to expect a “Very big match”
. “The tournament is going well for me, I am happy and I hope we will go far”
adds the tricolor rocket. The European champion’s champions are warned.
