The next step is closing the gap between Spain and the world’s elite teams. In the last seven months, Spain has played seven games against top 10 teams and won just two of them.“We are closer to them. The rankings say that also,” said Losada, who scored the first Women’s World Cup goal in Spanish history four years ago in Canada. “The difference between them and us in physical. Everybody knows we are technique players, really good [at] tactics and skills.Time and money.
“Making them professional doesn’t only mean to pay them a wage which allows them to live from their work,” Teixidor said. “But also giving them the possibility to train in the morning and not in the night. To have their own medical team following their health and their nutrition.“It’s all about creating the same structure men have, for women.”
A change in the structure of Spain’s women’s professional leagues is also in the works because of an increase in the number of teams competing.
this game needs some rules changed....