{"id":14157,"date":"2025-07-02T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bonmati-ready-to-debut-spain-optimistic-against-portugal-in-euro-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:26:49","slug":"bonmati-ready-to-debut-spain-optimistic-against-portugal-in-euro-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/bonmati-ready-to-debut-spain-optimistic-against-portugal-in-euro-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonmat\u00ed ready to debut: Spain optimistic against Portugal in Euro Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montse Tom\u00e9 Moderates Aitana Bonmat\u00ed’s Enthusiasm for the Debut in the European Championship<\/h2>\n\nSpanish coach Montse Tom\u00e9 has revealed that she must control the eagerness of Aitana Bonmat\u00ed, who is desperately seeking to be a starter in the opening match of the European Championship against Portugal. The midfielder is recovering from viral meningitis that kept her hospitalized.\n\nBonmat\u00ed, winner of the Ballon d’Or two consecutive times, was hospitalized last Friday, but was discharged on the weekend and joined her teammates in Switzerland on Monday.\n\n\n

Aitana’s evolution has been really positive. She will have some work with the rest of the team in the last session before the match.<\/p>Montse Tom\u00e9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nTom highlighted Bonmat\u00ed’s urgency to play, pointing out the need to moderate her impetuosity, although everything is positive. “Her health comes first. It hasn’t been an ideal situation, but fortunately she has recovered quickly,” added the coach.\n\nGoalkeeper Cata Coll was also doubtful for the match against Portugal due to tonsillitis, but Tom\u00e9 indicated that the Barcelona player will be ready to start in the Stadion Wankdorf.\n\nSpain will not have its captain, Irene Paredes, who is serving the second match of her suspension for a red card received during the qualifying phase for the tournament.\n\nIn Group B, alongside Spain and Portugal, are Italy and Belgium. “La Roja” is considered a favorite to advance to the quarterfinals and, possibly, win the tournament.\n\nEngland, Germany, and France are some of the teams that are emerging as Spain’s main rivals, who have never won the European Championship and haven’t reached the semi-finals since 1997.\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nAitana Bonmat\u00ed during Spain’s training on Wednesday. Photo by Fran Santiago – UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images<\/em>\n\nMidfielder Patri Guijarro commented at a press conference about the team’s expectations. “There are many strong teams here. All teams are 200% prepared to try to win every game. We are going to try the same,” she stated.\n\n\n

Our goal right now is to win tomorrow; then, in the short term, to get out of the group. But we are ambitious and want to win everything.<\/p>Patri Guijarro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGuijarro added that it’s flattering that others are watching Spain’s game, but emphasized the importance of focusing on themselves in the European Championship, where every match is crucial.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montse Tom\u00e9 Moderates Aitana Bonmat\u00ed’s Enthusiasm for the Debut in the European Championship Spanish coach Montse Tom\u00e9 has revealed that she must control the eagerness of Aitana Bonmat\u00ed, who is desperately seeking to be a starter in the opening match of the European Championship against Portugal. The midfielder is recovering from viral meningitis that kept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1956,5228,969,3030],"class_list":{"0":"post-14157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-aitana-bonmati","9":"tag-euros","10":"tag-portugal","11":"tag-spain"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}