This is the day, this is the match! The Polish women's national football team is fighting in Vienna with the Austrians to advance to Euro 2025. The dream promotion is the first in the history of women's football in our country. It is also extremely necessary, because although domestic women's football has made great progress in recent years, we have players in many strong leagues and clubs in Europe, the national team is missing a certain dot on the “i”.
First advancement to the Euro in Switzerland? We've seen this before
Reaching the Euros in Switzerland would definitely be something like that, or at least a big step in that direction. Our team could have been optimistic before leaving for Vienna for two reasons. First of all, they won at home 1-0, which is always an advance. Secondly, when the men's team advanced to the Euro for the first time in history in 2008, it took place, among others, in Switzerland, so it is possible that this circumstance was favorable for our football.
So we hoped that the Polish players would show class on the pitch. However, few people expected this to happen before the match. All thanks to Ewa Pajor. Our biggest star, the FC Barcelona player, showed off a really beautiful gesture while the anthems of both countries were playing.
Ewa Pajor showed class. And also a serious problem
Since it's already December, the temperature in Vienna did not spoil the fans, players or anyone else present at the stadium in the capital of Austria. It was especially felt by the children from the traditional children's escort of the players, dressed only in match uniforms and Santa Claus hats. The recording by Meczyki.pl journalist Samuel Szczygielski proves that Pajor did not watch it passively. During the Austrian national anthem, she took off her jacket and covered the child standing next to her with it so that she wouldn't have to freeze so much.
Internet users lavished praise on our representative, although the comments most often asked one very pertinent question. “Why do these children go out dressed like this in this weather? It's not normal.” “Can't you just dress these girls?” – asked users of the X portal. The match between Austria and Poland continues. The score remained 0-0 until the break, allowing our team to advance.