German Women Wins The 2013 Euro Championship

The German women national football team has won yet again the Euro Championship. The Germans who were missing a couple of vital players in the tournament due injuries defeated the Norwagian women by a lone goal.
The goal was scored by Anja Mittag, who came in as a substitute three minute earlier on, in the second half of the game.

About thirty minutes into the match Celia da Mbabi, brought down Cathrine Dekkerhus inside the eighteen and a penalty was awarded to Norway.

Trine Ronning, took the spot kick but the keeper Nadine Angerer, (34), who is also the skipper, blocked it with her leg.



The 2013 Women Euro Champions

Then not long after the second half began, the German striker, Celia da Mbabi, who caused the penalty in the first half made an audacious move from the left flank of the pitch with the ball and then passed it to Anja Mittage, who made no mistake in slotting away the ball into the net.

The Norwagians kept on pressing for an equalizer. Finally, their hard work resulted into another penalty when Caroline Hansen was tripped in the eighteen box by Jennifer Cramer.

Solveig Gulbrandsen, stepped up and took the spot kick, and once again Angerer blocked the ball, this time with her hand. Either she is a very lucky woman or she is an exceptional goal keeper.

Nadine Angerer, has become some kind of a legend between the sticks, as per stopping penalties in the finals. In 2007, Women World Cup final which Germany won against Brazil, she aslo saved a penalty.

This German victory was a kind of revenge against the Norwagians who beat them by a lone goal in their opening match. But what made the German victory so sweet was that it came the time it mattered most - in the final.

The Germans who has been dorminating the women european football for quite a long time now, has won the last six Women European Championships.

Angerer, made her first first international appearance in the competition as a 17 year old girl and has now won five trophies to date.

This is likely to be her last appearance in the tournament as a player, because by the next tournament she will be too old to participate. She will be 38 years old then. But I could be wrong, it will not be that surprising if she appears again after all a few men has appeared in the World Cup at fourty and over.

In the last World Cup in South Africa 2010, the England goalkeeper, David James was 40 years and he did very well. Like wise the Cameroonian, Roger Miller and Brazil's Falcao were over fourty when they played their last World Cups.

So one is never sure of this kind of thing. What do you think?
 Do you think she will appear again or retire by then?