The Spanish senior women’s national football team will play two friendly matches at the Palladium Can Misses stadium on Ibiza during the concentration that will take place on the island between April 4th and 12th in preparation for the Women’s World Cup 2023 to be hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) yesterday made the agreement with the City Council of Vila and the Consell de Ibiza official for the celebration of a historic visit that will be presented this afternoon at the Baluard de Santa Llúcia in Dalt Vila, with the presence of the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales.

The national team coached by Jorge Vilda has now defined the dates for two friendly matches, which, according to Diario de Ibiza, will be played on April 6th and Tuesday 11th at the Can Misses stadium. The rivals will be defined from this Saturday, when the draw for the group stage of the Women’s World Cup is held at the Aotea Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, where the coach Jorge Vilda himself will attend.

According to the information available, in the list of possible opponents for the friendlies in Eivissa are the great European powers of women’s football such as Germany, England, Holland, Italy, Sweden or Norway. Depending on the draw and in order not to coincide, the friendly matches will be scheduled as soon as possible to begin to close the organizational and logistical details to host the large Spanish expedition on the island, as well as the other two selections, during Easter which is the starting point of the tourist season on Ibiza and Formentera.

Oceania and the Pitiüses, united

The visit of the Spanish women’s national football team comes after the presentation by Adidas to the RFEF of the second kit for the World Cup, whose innovative design of blue tones will evoke the Great Barrier Reef and the seabed of Oceania. That’s where Eivissa and Formentera came into play. The Spanish Federation thought of the Pitiüses as the ideal setting to unveil the brand-new second kit, for its biodiversity and protection of a unique plant such as oceanic posidonia.

Thus, the Spanish national team will play one of the friendly matches with this second jersey and the other with the red one; a first jersey that, as a novelty, will be the same from now until the World Cup, like the men’s national team, for sustainability reasons.

Coexistence with the UD Ibiza in preparation for World Cup

In addition to the support of the insular and municipal institutions, the RFEF has also received the collaboration of the UD Ibiza so that the Palladium Can Misses stadium and its extention, Can Misses-3, will host both the matches and the training sessions of the national team during this week of concentration.

Later on, new meetings will be held to coordinate the coexistence of the sky-blue team with the international selections, since UD Ibiza will play that weekend at home against Sporting de Gijón.