FIFA Women's World Cup
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No thread yet for this, cant say I'm really surprised either....
But anyway, it kicks off today in Auckland.
I really don't follow womens football very closely, despite having a sister in law who was in the NZ team a (fair) few years back but I suspect that over the next month or so, I will probably watch more women's football than I will for the rest of my lifetime.
Am attending a few games too as I think it's great to show to try show some local support for the event. Will be at Italy vs Argentina (thanks to the TAB) and USA vs Portugal and then some knockout games.
Will NZ win a game? Perhaps vs the Philippines?
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@JK There are 32 competing nations and only the co-hosts didn't have to qualify.
Like any FIFA tournament they look for a geographical spread rather than the top 30 countries. Otherwise NZ would never qualify for the mens event.
11 qualified from Europe
5 from Asia
4 from Africa
4 from Nth America
3 from Sth AmericaPhilippines got through to Asian qualifying semi-finals which is how they qualified. Vietnam won a play-off from the losing 1/4 Finalist's
3 teams qualified by winning through an Inter Confederation play-off in NZ last Feb - Portugal, Haiti and Panama
Panama 52, Haiti 53, Morocco 72 and Zambia 77 are all ranked below Philippines.
All up eight of the qualifiers are outside the top 32
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Canβt wait
This may put it in to perspective for the non believers π
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@canefan said in FIFA Women's Word Cup:
@KiwiMurph said in FIFA Women's Word Cup:
Excellent crowd.
What time is kickoff?
Right now
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Looks like we have the Norwegians rattled a bit
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Fantastic first half, we finished stronger!
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Good start to the tournament
A home win would be massive
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@MiketheSnow said in FIFA Women's World Cup:
Good start to the tournament
A home win would be massive
Norway are a good side and move the ball well. It would be a massive win.
Norways last few results:
3-3 draw with Sweden. Sweden ranked #3
4-2 loss to Spain. Spain ranked #6
0-0 draw with France. France ranked #5