The biggest change in Tomé's Spain is in goal: Cata Coll, the only survivor from another era and yet to make her debut.

Half of the players who played in Euro 2022 and were crowned world champions in 2023 are in Switzerland , but only one remains in goal. The transformation of Montse Tomé 's Spain , sometimes caused by injuries and other times by sporting decisions, has been gradual, but it has been most noticeable between the sticks. Lola Gallardo , Sandra Paños and Misa Rodríguez , players from Atlético, Barça and Real Madrid, traveled to England. Only the Canary Islander went to Australia, where she ended up, unexpectedly, as a substitute for Cata Coll , the survivor in Switzerland , who has yet to make her Euro 2025 debut due to tonsillitis.

With her arrival on the bench, the coach has been defining her own trio: the immovable Coll, the young Adriana Nanclares and the veteran Esther Sullastres , who has arrived at the national team at the height of her professional maturity.

The Barça goalkeeper is the regular starter and only her throat has held her back so far. She became the starter in the World Cup Round of 16, relegating Misa after conceding a 4-0 defeat to Japan , a decision made by Jorge Vilda , which the player understood was for "non-sporting" reasons.

With a mask in Paris

The Real Madrid goalkeeper, a close associate of Jenni Hermoso , returned to Spain after the coach's dismissal, but never to the starting lineup. Tomé took her to the Paris Olympics , where she played 17 minutes in the 2-0 victory over Brazil in the group stage due to the blow Coll received to the face in the 75th minute. Afterwards, the Mallorcan did not move from the goal despite playing with a mask. Since then, Misa has not returned.

In all subsequent squads, except for the one in April, which featured the young Eunate Astralaga (Eibar's goalkeeper, on loan from Athletic, who just won the U-20 European Championship), Coll, Nanclares, and Sullastres were included. The young Nanclares, who defends Athletic 's goal, has been followed since the youth teams and was a starter at the U-20 World Cup , which Spain won in 2022.

"alone in an accident insurance company"

He made his debut in the November window against Korea , keeping a clean sheet. He also kept a clean sheet in his Euro debut against Portugal , but couldn't prevent Belgium 's two goals. At 23, he's enjoying swapping the track for football.

For Sullastres , 32, making it to the national team is a dream come true. The Sevilla goalkeeper tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in 2018, just as her contract with Zaragoza was ending. "I had to recover on my own at a workers' compensation insurance company. I was thinking about returning to normal life, because I thought football was over," she confessed recently in Lausanne. Reborn stronger, and after the serious injury to another goalkeeper on Tomé's radar, Valencia's Enith Salón , the Catalan has found a prize that she is now savoring.