Spain makes a fortune by winning EURO 2024; Vietnam women's futsal team finishes second in friendly tournament
Spain set a record prize money of 28.25 million euros; Vietnam women's futsal team drew 5-5 with Uzbekistan. Those are the outstanding sports news in the past 24 hours.
Spain makes a fortune from winning EURO 2024
Spain set a record bonus of 28.25 million euros, after winning EURO 2024 with a perfect record.
Spain won their fourth EURO title after beating England 2-1, thanks to goals from Nico Williams and Mikel Oyarzabal.
Luis de la Fuente's side enjoyed a perfect tournament, winning all seven of their games en route to the title.
After beating France in the semi-finals to reach the final, Spain's prize money was 20.25 million Euros.
The win over England took that figure to €28.25m, the maximum amount a team can win at the EURO.
The details of the "La Roja" prize money are as follows: 9.25 million Euros for participation; 3 million Euros for winning the group stage; 1.5 million Euros for reaching the round of 16; 2.5 million Euros for the quarter-finals; 4 million Euros for the semi-finals; and 8 million Euros for winning the final.
Held to a draw by Uzbekistan, Vietnam women's futsal finished second in a friendly tournament in China
For most of the match, the Vietnamese women's futsal team played better and at one point led their Uzbekistan opponents 5-3.
In the match against Vietnam women's futsal team on July 15, Uzbekistan was still the team that was rated higher. However, coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang and his team have shown progress through each match and have no fear against Uzbekistan.
At one point, the Vietnamese women's team was leading their opponents with a score of 5-3. Unfortunately, when the Uzbekistan team deployed the "power play" tactic at the end of the match, the Vietnamese women's futsal team received 2 consecutive goals and the score was leveled at 5-5.
In the end, the Vietnamese women's futsal team drew 5-5 with the Uzbekistan team. As a result, the Uzbekistan team became the champions of the tournament with 7 points (2 wins, 1 draw). Meanwhile, the Vietnamese team ranked second (5 points) with 1 win, 2 draws.
Argentina follows Spain
Seven hours after Spain became the "king" of Europe with a record 4 championships, Argentina also became the number 1 team in South America with their 16th Copa America championship.
Colombia is a team with a lot of fighting spirit, desire and plays well, even better in all parameters, but Argentina has "experience". It seemed that Messi had his last tango with Copa America in tears when he almost only walked and had to leave the field in the 65th minute after falling. But the tears were replaced by smiles when in the 111th minute, Argentina stole the ball from their own half and had a combination for Inter Milan striker L. Martinez to score the only goal of the match, at the same time becoming the top scorer with 5 goals.
Colombia ended their 28-match unbeaten streak in the most important match. Meanwhile, Argentina completed a "poker" of championships: Copa America 2021, Intercontinental Cup 2022, World Cup 2022 and Copa America 2024.