Congratulations, girls! The German national women's team have won the bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic Games thanks to a 1-0 win over world champions Spain on Friday afternoon. FC Bayern Women's Giulia Gwinn scored the winning goal from the penalty spot in the 65th minute. In added time, goalkeeper Ann-Kathrin Berger saved a Spanish penalty to protect the narrow victory. Everyone at FC Bayern congratulates its players Klara Bühl, Sydney Lohmann, Lea Schüller and Gwinn on the bronze medal!
Herbert Hainer, FC Bayern president: "Congratulations to the German women's football team and our FC Bayern players Giulia Gwinn, Lea Schüller, Klara Bühl and Sydney Lohmann on winning the Olympic bronze medal. We're very proud of this achievement. Congratulations also to coach Horst Hrubesch on this nice ending to his career. We're now looking forward to the return of our Olympic quartet and to new goals: more nice football, with lots of wins and more success."
Bianca Rech, FC Bayern director of women's football: "Olympic medals have a fine tradition in German women's football. Once again this year, the team haven't come away empty-handed – congratulations on bronze, the fifth Olympic medal in total for a German women's team. We're particularly pleased for our Munich bronze quartet of Giulia Gwinn, Lea Schüller, Klara Bühl and Sydney Lohmann, who have played a big part in this success. Now it's about taking that momentum into the new season."
Lea Schüller, Giulia Gwinn, Klara Bühl and Sydney Lohmann of FCB Women win bronze with Germany at the Olympics.
Lohmann absent with illness
Gwinn and Bühl both started the bronze medal match, while Schüller, who missed the semi-final due to patella inflammation, came on at half-time. Midfielder Lohmann, who featured in all the previous games at the tournament, missed out due to an infection.
Gwinn with golden goal for bronze
In a contest that was hard-fought and tense until the end, it was Gwinn who won it for Germany in the 65th minute. The full-back confidently converted the penalty after being fouled by Spanish goalkeeper Cata Coll. Six minutes later, substitute Schüller could've put the game to bed but was denied by the world champions' shot-stopper. The Spanish pushed for the equaliser after that and were awarded a spot-kick in the eighth minute of stoppage time, but goalkeeper Berger held her nerve and saved what was virtually the last kick of the match, and the German team were able to celebrate bronze at the 2024 Olympics.
Giulia Gwinn won and scored the penalty for the winning goal in the bronze medal match.
Reward for strong tournament
Third place is Germany's reward for a strong tournament overall. In the group stage, they registered two wins over Australia (3-0) and Zambia (4-1) either side of a 4-1 defeat to USA. The 4-2 win on penalties in the quarter-final against Canada was followed by an unlucky 1-0 loss after extra time against the US.
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