{"id":503,"date":"2024-08-11T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/germany-spain-wanted-olympic-gold-but-heres-why-bronze-matters\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T13:34:30","slug":"germany-spain-wanted-olympic-gold-but-heres-why-bronze-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/germany-spain-wanted-olympic-gold-but-heres-why-bronze-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Spain wanted Olympic gold but here&#8217;s why bronze matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LYON, France &#8212; Nobody enters a tournament hoping to come third. But for <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3002cdb6-4d2f-4a63-fb74-f789fa9067fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2756\">Germany<\/a> and Spain, competing in that infamous match at the 2024 women&#8217;s Olympic soccer tournament does have something big on the line: the chance to win a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>In the seven Olympics tournaments to feature a women&#8217;s football competition since 1996, only four nations (the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"cb9be884-d621-f46a-952e-7f9ef155cad5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2765\">United States<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b6971873-a34b-d747-24f8-b6f76ebcac9a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2762\">Norway<\/a>, Germany, and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"172daf38-6717-7bed-139b-8a34418ef6a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2753\">Canada<\/a>) have ever won gold &#8212; though <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"51cac49c-4eb8-9dc4-a697-3e79cf4d053d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=2752\">Brazil<\/a> have an opportunity to add their name to the list when they face the USWNT on Saturday. Looked at another way, a chance to get on the podium to claim a prestigious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/40791451\/germany-spain-wanted-olympic-gold-here-why-bronze-matters\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYON, France &#8212; Nobody enters a tournament hoping to come third. But for Germany and Spain, competing in that infamous match at the 2024 women&#8217;s Olympic soccer tournament does have something big on the line: the chance to win a bronze medal. In the seven Olympics tournaments to feature a women&#8217;s football competition since 1996, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}