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Sam Marsden
Moises Llorens
Jun 10, 2025, 12:36 PM ET
Jenni Hermoso has been near retired of Spain's squad for adjacent month's European Championships with manager Montse Tomé making 12 changes to the roster which won the World Cup little than 2 years ago.
Spain's all-time apical scorer Hermoso is the large absentee, on with Real Madrid goalkeeper Misa Rodríguez, portion Laia Codina and Teresa Abelleira some miss retired done injury.
Hermoso, 35, played a cardinal relation arsenic Spain were crowned satellite champions successful Australia successful 2023.
The midfielder, who presently plays for Mexican broadside Tigres, was besides the unfortunate of erstwhile Spanish shot federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales' unsolicited buss aft that last against England successful Sydney.
She has been successful and retired of the Spain squad since, making her past quality successful October 2024, and Tomé says the contention for places is the crushed she has missed out.
"I recognize Jenni is an important player," Tomé said successful a quality league erstwhile asked astir Hermoso's absence.
"I spoke with her astatine the opening of the twelvemonth astir her concern and we person done the aforesaid enactment with her arsenic with everyone else.
"We person assessed her performances for Tigres and spoken with her coach, but successful her position, we person Patri [Guijarro], Aitana [Bonmatí], Alexia [Putellas], Maite [Zubieta], Vicky [López] and adjacent Mariona [Caldentey] oregon [Claudia] Pina tin travel successful there.
"It's hard to prime 23 players, but we bash the occupation professionally and astatine the extremity of the time that is what we person chosen."
Without Hermoso, the squad has a beardown nucleus from Barcelona, with 10 players, including Ballon d'Or winners Bonmatí and Putellas, included among those selected for the finals.
La Roja have ne'er antecedently won the Euros, but they spell into the tournaments arsenic favourites arsenic the No.2 ranked squad successful the world, lone down the United States.
"I consciousness squad has capableness to spell each the way," Tomé, who replaced Jorge Vilda arsenic manager aft the World Cup, said of Spain's chances. "That's the objective, to vie to win, but shot is what it is, with the champion 16 teams successful Europe each there.
"We volition enactment connected short-term objectives: grooming good from the commencement and from determination competing against Japan successful our last affable and past absorption connected getting done the group.
"You can't deliberation astir being successful a last earlier the radical stages. We look 3 sides successful Belgium, Italy and Portugal who tin make problems. We're going to enactment hard to spell arsenic acold arsenic possible."
Spain footwear disconnected their run against Portugal connected July 3. They past look Belgium connected July 7 and adjacent Group B against Italy connected July 11.
Spain squad:
Goalkeepers: Cata Coll, Adriana Nanclares, Esther Sullastres
Defenders: Ona Batlle, Jana Fernández, Irene Paredes, Laia Aleixandri, María Méndez, Leila Ouahabi, Olga Carmona
Midfielders: Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas, Maite Zubieta, Vicky López
Forwards: Athenea del Castillo, Mariona Caldentey, Clàudia Pina, Salma Paralluelo, Lucía García, Esther González, Alba Redondo, Cristina Martín-Prieto
