Cata Coll caught the ball high in the 14th minute of discount and there was no one to dispute the team, a success that leaves journalists almost without adjectives. If history was already made by overcoming the round of 16 barrier, how would we define what Spain achieved yesterday? Is there any more superlative expression than making history? Maybe yes, if we accept Jennifer Hermoso’s spontaneous statement at the end of the final: “We are fucking world champions.”

This World Cup has projected to fame a dozen heroines whose names will be with us for years. And not only as sports references. They are footballers who, yes, have made history in their profession, but who also have a long history as propagandists for equality and the fight to overcome barriers. The celebrations will be massive after most of the media have dedicated generous space to the championship.

The only downside is that the English defeat deprives us of those well-tuned choral songs of great songs like Sweet Caroline, Three lions or River deep, mountain high. Let’s hope that in Spain these days the words “I am Spanish” and “lo, lo, lo, lo, looo, lo” are not abused, nor is it just out of respect for the White Stripes. The barrier of anthems with good taste has yet to be broken down.

Yesterday’s success, however, carries a risk: that the fun is not the same when leaving the field as when entering it. That is to say, will the champions continue to enjoy the same when the echo of a World Cup played in full stadiums dies out and they face the precariousness of the national competition, with a Federation that stings in the staging of its tournaments and clubs that signed up? to the feminine just because it was wrong not to be there and they continue like that?

Not even Barça, the team that invests, the club that is the raison d’être of the red – there were seven blaugrana in the eleven of Spain, nine in the final if you count the English Bronze and Walsh –, has just valued what that treasures From the outset, it is not expected that the winners of two Champions Leagues will be able to play matches at Montjuïc this season, because it has been decided that the Estadi Olímpic is only for men, although they, for now, have not managed to fill it.

And if things are like this at FC Barcelona…