{"id":455937,"date":"2023-08-21T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455937"},"modified":"2023-08-21T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:46:02","slug":"carmona-scored-spains-winning-goal-not-knowing-her-father-had-passed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/carmona-scored-spains-winning-goal-not-knowing-her-father-had-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmona scored Spain&#8217;s winning goal not knowing her father had passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain international Olga Carmona had an emotional rollercoaster day on Sunday as her team won the world title with a 1-0 win over England in the final of the tournament. However, it turned out that shortly after the match, she learned that her father had passed away.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Friday, but it was kept a secret from her &#8211; presumably so she could focus on the match for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Carmona scored the winning goal for &#8220;La Roja&#8221; in the 29th minute of the final with a beautiful shot with her left foot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spain have announced that Olga Carmona&#8217;s father has died.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup-winner found out about the news following the full-time whistle where she scored the game&#8217;s only goal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eRG8JBYGQO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eRG8JBYGQO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1693377072956162222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It made an impression that in her joy at the goal, she lifted her jersey, and underneath it she had written &#8220;Merchi&#8221;. This was Olga&#8217;s message in memory of her best friend who recently lost her mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain international Olga Carmona had an emotional rollercoaster day on Sunday as her team won the world title with a 1-0 win over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455938,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18729],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[18730],"acf":{"announce":"It was kept a secret from her for two days in order to concentrate on the final","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455937"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455937"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}