Opinion
THE power to change the minds of men everywhere rested on Spanish captain Olga Carmona’s left foot. With her goal, a well-placed strike from the left side tucked low that just sneaked inside the far post and into the net, Carmona dismantled centuries of sexism in sport, probably.
The correct battle English goalkeeper Mary Earps decided to take on came during a Spanish penalty kick, and she won. When Earps read forward Jennifer Hermoso’s attempt like a romance novel on the beach, stopping the ball cold, she emerged from the ground, cradling the ball, sticking out her tongue and nodding emphatically that she had picked the precise right fight, perhaps.
Maybe in Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s fantasy world, this is what
