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The Fifa Women’s World Cup began in 1991 and the tournament in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 marks the ninth edition of the quadrennial world championship for women’s football. The USA are the defending champions and have won the competition four times
Kiss for player after Spanish Women’s World Glory has turned into a crisis and become a #MeToo moment for the sport.
The successful tournament has rightly been hailed as a game changer both for the code and women’s sport in general after decades of neglect.
The sport is on an upwards trajectory, but the sponsorship, investment, promotion and enthusiasm devoted to the tournament needs to be sustained.
China’s early exit from the game’s biggest stage shows that much work needs to be done if it is to become one of the world’s top teams again.
Fair treatment, support and respect are essential for women to become successful, and society should step up to ensure they get it.
- Young women footballers in Complexo do Alemao, one of Rio’s most impoverished and violent favelas, often can’t leave home to train when police and drug dealers shoot at each other
- A five-time champion in men’s soccer, more than any other country, Brazil has yet to win its first Women’s World Cup trophy.
Ante Milicic worked with Ange Postecoglou during stint as Australia men’s manager. He replaces Shui Qingxia who left after failure to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
Six-time World Player of the Year, considered one of the greatest women’s footballers in game’s history and was twice Olympic silver medallist – including in Beijing.
Prosecutor charged Rubiales with one count of sexual assault and one of coercion for his alleged actions in aftermath of kiss, offences carrying jail terms of one year and 18 months, respectively.
Hayes is expected to take charge of America team for two friendlies against South Korea in June.
The Belgium FA has unveiled the new kits for its male and female teams, with the home kit in the traditional red while the away kit is a tribute to the famous cartoon character.
Fans snap up 30,000 tickets for game in Adelaide in May, the 13th successive time women’s team has attracted a capacity crowd.
City delegate told the NPC there were enough facilities in Kai Tak Sports Park and Guangzhou Nansha Urban Sports Complex to meet the needs of the competition.
State prosecutors have accused former Spanish soccer president Luis Rubiales of sexual assault and for allegedly coercing Jenni Hermoso to publicly support him in the public backlash against him.
Shui Qingxia pays price for team missing out on Paris Olympics next year, and Chinese football bosses say they will give ‘careful consideration’ to a successor.
Chelsea’s Emma Hayes will not start her new position until May of 2024, giving her only four exhibition matches with the team before the Paris Olympics.
Football star Jenni Hermoso accuses bosses of seeking to ‘intimidate’ World Cup champions by calling them up against their will for Nations League matches.
The order prevents Luis Rubiales from contacting Jenni Hermoso or coming within 200 metres of her, as he’s investigated for sexual assault after kissing her during the women’s World Cup medal ceremony.
If the case goes to trial, Rubiales could face one to four years imprisonment if found guilty, while the nation’s top footballers refuse to represent the nation until there are changes in the RFEF management line-up and style.
‘I’m going to (resign), yes, because I cannot continue my work,’ said Rubiales in a TV interview on Sunday. Rubiales sparked a backlash after forcibly kissing Jenni Hermoso following Spain’s World Cup triumph in Sydney last month.
The Spanish football federation said it has appointed Montse Tome to succeed Vilda as coach, making her the first woman to manage the side. Tome had been Vilda’s assistant coach since 2018.
Michael Udebuluzor, who hopes to make his senior Hong Kong debut this month, has played in Germany under head coach Sabrina Wittman.
Spain’s football federation unveiled a plan that would see least 40 per cent of women in leadership roles of all sports organisations, as federation boss Luis Rubiales has been asked to resign for kissing World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso.
‘After recent events and the unacceptable behaviour that has seriously damaged the image of Spanish football, the presidents request that Luis Rubiales resign immediately as president of the RFEF,’ said the federation.
Angeles Bejar locked herself inside a church and said her strike would last ‘until a solution is found to the … hunt they are carrying out against my son’ after Luis Rubiales was suspended by Fifa for kissing player Jenni Hermoso during the awards ceremony after Spain’s win.
RFEF, of which Luis Rubiales is president, threatens action ‘to defend [his] honour’ over criticism of him kissing one of Spain’s Women’s World Cup winners.
56 members of the Spain national team say they will not play any matches for the country while Luis Rubiales remains in his job.
This year’s Women’s World Cup garnered plenty of fanfare, with a viewership that outpaced the men’s Wimbledon final – so how exactly do the leading ladies spend their winnings?
La Liga F also slams Luis Rubiales’ crotch-grab celebration next to Spain’s Queen Letizia, while US football legend Megan Rapinoe says kiss on the lips of Jenni Hermoso showed ‘deep level of misogyny’.
Luis Rubiales kissed Jenni Hermoso as he handed the Spanish team gold medals after they beat England 1-0 in the final on Sunday provoking outrage in Spain
Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish football federation, kissed the player uninvited as he distributed medals following Spain’s victory over England, and Hermoso was heard telling teammates in the locker room after that she ‘didn’t like it’.
Unconfirmed Spanish media reports said Carmona’s father died a day before win over England, but relatives decided to wait until after the match to tell her.
Olga Carmona’s first-half goal enough for victory, as Mary Earps’ penalty save sets up dramatic finish.
