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Final de la Champions League Femenina UEFA 2024: Lyon vs Barcelona
![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. The 2024 UEFA Women's Champions League final is set: eight-time winners Lyon will face champions Barcelona, who are aiming for a second title in three years, at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao on May 25.French giants Lyon got the better of their Spanish rivals in the 2019 final and again in 2022. Between them, the pair will have won the past nine titles once the dust has settled on Saturday.What's in store this time? Here's a preview of the top women's club match in European football.- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)What state are Lyon in going into the match?Lyon are in good form and good humour coming into the final, which will be their 11th Women's Champions League final appearance to date. Their last match was the Division 1 Féminine playoff final against Paris Saint-Germain, which they won with relative ease last weekend. In preparation for their last two games of the season, manager Sonia Bompastor rotated the squad heavily to give her players some rest.Everything just feels right for Lyon. They've added another league trophy to their haul and they're back where they belong, ready to fight for Europe's biggest prize. Although she is unlikely to start in Bilbao, the return of talismanic attacker Ada Hegerberg from injury will also give Les Fenottes a boost.Lyon will once again be going into a final in which they are not the favourites, but they will be feeling good about their chances of lifting the trophy for a ninth time. -- Sophie LawsonWhat state are Barcelona in going into the match?Barcelona completed a domestic treble at the weekend, thumping Real Sociedad 8-0 in the final of the Copa de la Reina, having already won a fifth consecutive Liga F title and the Spanish Supercopa earlier this season. "Three down, one to go," said forward Mariona Caldentey after the thrashing of La Real. That is a good demonstration of where Barcelona's heads are at the moment -- for all the success they have tasted in recent years, they are still focused on two challenges they feel they have left to tick off. The first is winning a quadruple for the first time ever; the second is beating Lyon."[Winning the final against them] would be the cherry on top of the cake," defender Marta Torrejón told ESPN ahead of Saturday's game.The mood is buoyant and the squad is in good shape. Alexia Putellas and Fridolina Rolfö have both strung together a run of games in recent months after injury problems earlier this season, with centre-back María León the only major absentee expected this weekend.However, there are some issues. The first is the psychological barrier of never having beaten the French champions. The second is the doubt sowed during the semifinal win over Chelsea. After losing the first leg -- Barcelona's first home loss in five years -- they turned things around at Stamford Bridge, but it was far from easy, and it demonstrated they can be neutralized in attack. -- Sam MarsdenLyon lead Barça 7-2 on aggregate in their last two UWCL finals. Are they massive favourites?Incredibly, eight-time champions Lyon are not actually seen as favourites now; such is the respect people have for Barcelona and the way that they play.Lyon were top dog in the 2019 final, having won the previous three Women's Champions League titles, and the game was done after a half hour when an early goal from Dzsenifer Marozsán was followed by a stunning Hegerberg hat trick that put them up 4-0. But in 2022, Barcelona were the reigning champions, and the assumption was that Lyon's time was over. However, another three goals inside 33 minutes put paid to that and Lyon held out for a 3-1 win.No team in women's football history have been as good at winning the Champions League as Lyon. The understanding of how to get through those finals is encoded into their DNA, so they really should be favourites this time.But no one can deny the irresistible way that Barcelona play. Regardless of the shared history of the two teams, Barcelona's style and the quality of players such as Putellas and Aitana Bonmatí are what keep Barcelona favourites. -- SLWas it inevitable these two teams would make the final?With all due respect to beaten semifinalists, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, this fixture did feel extremely inevitable. The way both teams powered through the group stage meant they couldn't meet until the semifinal and, once they were kept apart in the draw, meeting in a third final in six years was always on the cards.Chelsea and PSG both played their part in the semifinals, showing that Barça and Lyon are not as far ahead as they were, but the two apex predators of the European game proved too strong in the end.It is the final that generates the most interest, too. Lyon are looking to complete a trilogy of wins over Barcelona on the biggest stage. Meanwhile, Barça could finally establish themselves as the best around by beating the side who have denied them glory in the past and securing back-to-back Champions Leagues. -- SMLyon player to watch: Delphine CascarinoStill on the way back to her best following an ACL injury last May, Cascarino has shown glimpses of her old self and is finding form at the right time for Lyon. Getting on the scoresheet for the first time in league this season against PSG at the weekend, the 27-year-old forward is looking fresh and might be the player to give Barcelona's defence all sorts of headaches.As we saw last time these two teams met in the final, stopping Barcelona from playing their way was vital for Lyon, so we're also likely to see their midfield working overtime to congest the spaces and force turnovers. If that happens, a player such as combative USWNT midfielder Lindsey Horan could shine too. -- SLBarcelona player to watch: Caroline Graham HansenThis is the problem for Lyon; there are far too many to single out one player. Ballon d'Or winner Bonmatí is the obvious candidate; Rolfö, last year's match-winner in the final, has returned from injury in fine form; while 20-year-old Salma Paralluelo is developing into one of the game's best forwards.However, Barça's standout player this season has been the oft-overlooked Caroline Graham Hansen. The Norway winger rarely features in individual awards, but it will be hard to leave her out this year. She leads Liga F in goals (19) and assists (18), adding five goals and five assists in the Champions League. In total, she has 57 goal contributions in all competitions from just 37 games. -- SMPredictionsLyon 2-1 Barcelona. On paper, Barcelona are the favourites, but they're facing a Lyon team they've never beaten in a Champions League final. Their two previous meetings in the final have helped Barcelona grow more of the mentality you need to stay at the top, and we saw that in action last season when they came from behind against Wolfsburg.If Lyon can disrupt the Blaugrana flow -- as they did in Turin, and as Chelsea did in their semifinal first leg in Montjuïc -- they could expose a weakness. Maybe it's foolhardy, but I'm going to go with Lyon. It won't be easy, but there is no team better at winning Women's Champions League titles. -- SLBarcelona 2-1 Lyon (AET): Psychologically, the opening 30 minutes are going to be so important for Barcelona after their previous issues against Lyon. Even Wolfsburg led 2-0 at the break last year.But this is a more mature Barça side. They can use the experience of last year's final comeback and the semifinal win over Chelsea to get over the line and send coach Jonatan Giraldez off to his new job with the Washington Spirit on a high. If they can get through those first 30 minutes level, or even within one goal of Lyon, they can win the game. It might take extra-time though. -- SM ,Final de la UEFA Women's Champions League 2024: Lyon vs. Barcelona en el Estadio San Mamés de Bilbao el 25 de mayo. Lyon busca su noveno título.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Thu-23-May-2024-032702-EST.jpg)
Final de la UEFA Women’s Champions League 2024: Lyon vs. Barcelona en el Estadio San Mamés de Bilbao el 25 de mayo. Lyon busca su noveno título.
El legado de George Graham en Yokohama, por Harry Kewell
![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. When Harry Kewell first began regularly featuring in the first team of Leeds United as a teenager, his manager at Elland Road was George Graham. An austere figure who would soon leave Yorkshire under acrimonious circumstances, he nonetheless possessed a presence that intimidated Kewell but also made a lifelong impact."I only had George for a short period, but that was enough to imprint what a footballer should be," Kewell told ESPN in 2017. "He used to walk the halls, and you'd be scared ... not in a bad way, but he just had that aura about him."- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)A forward from the fringes of Glasgow who shifted into the midfield during his playing days, possessing a languid style earned him the nickname "Stroller," Graham is an Arsenal legend, winning a league and FA Cup double with the Gunners in 1970-71 before moving into management, In the dugout, Graham excelled and, off the back of an iron defence, led Arsenal to two league titles, two league cups, an FA Cup and a European Cup Winners' Cup. He was ousted from Highbury in 1995 for accepting an illegal £425,000 payment from an agent but a year on, after serving a ban, he ended up at the Leeds helm.Kewell had made his first-team debut under Howard Wilkinson as a 16-year-old back in 1996 but it was under Graham that the Socceroos legend established himself, starting 29 games across all competitions as Leeds secured a fifth-placed league finish in 1997-98."[He] said winning the title as a player was fantastic, but winning it as a manager was unbelievable," Kewell recalled. "Because you are controlling these players. That's something I'm working towards, but I can't imagine what that will feel like."Nearly three decades on from becoming a first-team regular under Graham and now a manager himself, Kewell finds himself 90 minutes away from a chance to put his old mentor's hypothesis to the test, as well as cap off an incredible start to life in Japan, as his Yokohama F. Marinos face off with Emirati side Al-Ain in Saturday's second leg of the Asian Champions League final.Kewell already has a taste of Champions League highs as a player, of course, part of the Liverpool side that staged one of the most miraculous comebacks in history in 2005, when they fell into a 3-0 half-time deficit only for a stunning second-half fightback to set the stage for a penalty shootout win over AC Milan. Kewell, perhaps infamously, limped out of the game after 23 minutes with injury -- almost symbolic of his stop-start time with the Reds.Remarkably, he isn't the only link between those 2005 and 2024 finals, either, with Hernán Crespo, who scored twice for Milan in that incredible game, now the manager of Al-Ain. But this time around, it's the turn of the Argentinian to chase the contest, with Kewell's Yokohama securing a 2-1 win in the first leg of the tie back on May 11.Kewell only arrived at Yokohama on New Year's Eve, leaving his position as an assistant manager at Celtic to replace another former Socceroos star in Kevin Muscat, who departed at the end of the 2023 J1 League season. It continued a recent and, to now, quite successful trend of Australians at the club, with Muscat's J1 League and Japanese Super Cup winning tenure following on from Ange Postecoglou's highly successful stint that saw the Tricolor end a 15-year league drought with the 2019 J1 League title.But Yokohama have never reached the peak of Asian football across their 52-year history -- their best finish was runner-up Chinese side Liaoning in the final of the ACL's predecessor competition the Asian Club Championship in 1990 when they were known as Nissan Motor Football Club. They've won the J1 League five times in the intervening period, but Asian football's biggest prize has eluded them. Postecoglou's side was eliminated by Korean outfit Suwon Bluewings in the round of 16 in 2020, and Muscat's by Japanese rivals Vissel Kobe in 2022. Nonetheless, the fingerprints of those two former bosses can still be found on the club's progression to this point, while Postecoglou can also be credited for breathing new life into Kewell's coaching ambitions.When Kewell was speaking to ESPN in 2017, he was the newly appointed boss of League Two side Crawley Town, becoming the first Australian to coach an English men's professional team after two years as an academy coach with Watford. He was full of enthusiasm then, itching to pursue what had become his passion. But while he started well enough at Crawley, a decision to leave just six games into the 2018-19 season to take over at Notts County kicked off a downward spiral; the 58-time Socceroo was sacked at Meadow Lane after just 11 games and with the Magpies sitting just above the League Two relegation zone.He subsequently joined the revolving door of managers at Oldham Athletic, lasting 41 games in charge, with 11 wins, before being sacked after just over six months at Boundary Park. He then landed at National League side Barnet, their 26th manager in 10 seasons, and did little to break this instability by going winless in a seven-game tenure before the axe fell. Sacked by three different clubs in as many years, the last of which was in the fifth tier of the English pyramid, the thought that Kewell would be coaching in the biggest game in Asian club football less than three years later would have seemed preposterous."I wouldn't change one thing of what I've done in the coaching aspect," Kewell said following his Barnet exit."The only thing I seem to not get a grip on is the unprofessionalism of certain people within clubs. That is what I struggle with. One minute you see them talking to you and they have your back. The next minute they completely stab you in the back."But it was here, with Kewell at a coaching crossroads, that Postecoglou, who had just done the league and league cup double in his first season at Celtic, threw him a lifeline: bringing Kewell in as first-team coach for what became a treble-winning 2022-23 campaign at Parkhead.Not only did this season serve to resuscitate Kewell's coaching career but it also exposed him to former Yokohama players Tomoki Iwata, Reo Hatate, and Daizen Maeda, the latter of whom's work ethic and desire to learn reportedly made such an impression that it helped spur Kewell's enthusiasm to pursue an opportunity in Japan should the chance arise. Almost by fate, Yokohama came calling and, with Postecoglou's endorsement, Kewell succeeded Muscat after he left Yokohama to take the job at Chinese giants Shanghai Port."I'm not taking full credit here," he said after the semifinal win over Ulsan. "[Yokohama have] had two wonderful managers previously, before me, that have done amazing things. I've walked into a club and even on my first day I said I've got a very solid base ground. Very solid."It just needed something different. And to be able to work on that myself and with my coaches has been excellent. But I have to give credit to my players here who have adapted to it and want to do it. That's what you've got to try and do."You've got to try and make training entertaining, you've got to want players to come in and want to learn and become better. That's my goal as a coach, anywhere I've gone, any club that I've managed, I try and make players better."Kewell's time at Yokohama is still young but a chance to become just the second Australian coach to win an Asian Champions League, following on from Tony Popovic's win with the Western Sydney Wanderers in 2014, undoubtedly offers some level of redemption. Less than three years ago, Kewell had been written off as another former player who couldn't make the grade as a coach. Now, he is just 90 minutes away from that "unbelievable" dream that Graham had inspired him to achieve. ,Harry Kewell, influenciado por George Graham en Leeds, buscará hacer historia con Yokohama F. Marinos en la final de la Champions League asiática.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Wed-22-May-2024-231928-EST.jpg)
Harry Kewell, influenciado por George Graham en Leeds, buscará hacer historia con Yokohama F. Marinos en la final de la Champions League asiática.
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