Silver for VfL Wolfsburg: The Swedish women’s football team, which also includes Vflarin Rebecca Blomqvist, lost the final 3-4 against Canada on penalties on Friday. Blomquist was never used again, only in the third group game she was on the field.

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The game was exciting, the penalty shoot-out was dramatic. Sweden made better adjustments from the start and targeted Canada’s weak points, with Stina Blakstenius scoring 1–0 for the Scandinavians in the 34th minute, who still had everything under control, but in the 66th minute. Caused an unnecessary penalty. Jesse Fleming brought Canada back from point, extra time went without a goal. It was spectacular in the penalty shoot-out: Canada missed three penalties – two of which were held by former VfL goalkeeper Hedwig Lindahl (2019/2020 at Wolfsburg) – but Sweden failed four times – and thus missed the first possible gold medal in the Olympics.

This leaves eight Wolfsburg gold medals in Olympic Games history. In 1972 in Munich, Wolfsburg’s then-best athlete Hildegard Falk won over 800 meters, in 1984 it was judoka Frank Wienecke who brought Wolfsburg to Olympic glory, winning the class up to 78 kg in Los Angeles. It was the first judo gold for Germany. Wolfsburg was a stronghold of judo. It would take 27 years until the next Wolfsburg medal in the sport, with MTV Vorsfeld’s Giovanna Scokimaro winning the bronze medal with the mixed team in Tokyo.

Vienneke’s gold was the last gold ever for VfL EV – the football company responsible for the latter’s victory. Andrés D’Alessandro was the head of the Argentine Olympic selection in Sydney in 2004They defeated Paraguay 1-0 in the final. Twelve years later, the number of VfL gold medals increased Along with goalkeepers Almuth Schultz, Lena Goeling, Alexandra Pope, Isabel Kershovsky and VfL’s Babette Peter, the German women’s football players defeated Sweden 2–1 in the Rio final.