When UEFA delayed the hosting decision for the 2025 Women’s Euros to April there may have been a few elite players wondering if the actual finals could be put back a year.
While any international footballer relishes a major tournament, for some it might be too much of a good thing. The 2025 Euros will be the fifth successive summer in which there has been a major international tournament and after two events of that cycle bodies are already breaking down.
The voting for the Ballon d’Or Feminin 2022 revealed five of the top 18 players were out of action with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, including the top two, Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas and, attending the presentation on crutches, Arsenal’s Beth Mead.
Mead’s team-mate Vivianne Miedema, Catarina Macario and Marie-Antoinette Katoto made up the quintet while seventh-placed Ada Hegerberg, of Lyon
