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FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: June 9, 2018, 9:10 am
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The qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019 are
going on now to the end of 2018. I thought the women are as
deserving of a thread as are the men. Here's a link for any
interested. I very much enjoy this tournament as well. It too is
the beautiful game. I would especially urge sporting women and
neutrals to watch if time permits. It's global.
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process will
decide 23 of the 24 teams which will play in the 2019 FIFA
Women's World Cup, with the hosts France qualifying
automatically.[1] It will be the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup,
the quadrennial international women's football world
championship tournament. The tournament will be the third to be
hosted in Europe, after the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in
Sweden and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
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For CONCACAF:
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the CONCACAF Women's
Championship will serve as the World Cup qualifying tournament
for CONCACAF members. The World Cup qualifying process will be
as follows:
Qualifying stage: Regional qualification tournaments will be
held in the Central American Zone and the Caribbean Zone. Two
teams from the Central American Zone and three teams from the
Caribbean Zone will qualify for the final tournament to join the
three teams from North American Zone, Canada, Mexico, and the
United States, who qualify automatically.
Final tournament: A total of eight teams will play in the 2018
CONCACAF Women's Championship, which will be held from 4 to 17
October 2018 at the United States.[15] They will be drawn into
two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group will
advance to the knockout stage, where the winners of the
semi-finals and the third place play-off will qualify for the
World Cup. The losers of the third-place play-off will enter the
CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off.
Guadeloupe and Martinique have entered Caribbean qualifying for
the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship. However, as they are not
FIFA members, they are not eligible to qualify for the World
Cup.:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_qualification
Previous winners 1991 USA
1995 Norway
1999 USA
2003 Germany
2007 Germany
2011 Japan
2015 USA
As of 2017, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final was the most
watched soccer match in American history with nearly 23 million
viewers until this summer where even more people watched a
friendly between Manchester United and Real Madrid,[16] more
than the 2015 NBA Finals and Stanley Cup.[17] It was also the
most watched Spanish-language broadcast in tournament
history.[16] More than 750 million viewers were reported to have
watched the tournament worldwide.[18]:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Women's_World_Cup
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBQGIcbqyvg
"In America I'm just a fat b*%#*#d but in France I'm a
gourmand!"
- Homer Simpson
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: July 21, 2018, 9:06 am
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Yes, Marta. I haven't forgotten the women. I'll be watching
whenever I can. I've seen you play a number of times and you're
very good at it.
I am sure next summer’s tournament, just like the one in Russia,
will be very well organised. I fully expect there to be a lot of
great games, a lot of supporters attending the games and, of
course, more media coverage – from TV, online and print – than
ever before. Our sport is growing and this is our chance to show
that women’s football is also exciting and attractive . . .
. . .
Women’s football has made enormous strides in the past decades
and I am confident that will continue. There is always a battle
to get more coverage on TV, in newspapers and on websites – so
it is up to the players to do what we can to help improve that,
which is to play the best we can, do our job with love and
affection and continually show to people that women’s football
is attractive and engaging and, above all, a beautiful game. :
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/21/russia-world-cup-women-france-2019-marta
Indeed it is.
Marta Vieira da Silva (born 19 February 1986), commonly known as
Marta, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for the Orlando Pride
in the National Women's Soccer League and the Brazil national
team as a forward. With 15 goals, she holds the record for most
goals scored at FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments, surpassing
Birgit Prinz's previous record of 14 with a goal against South
Korea in Brazil's first match of the 2015 edition in Canada.
Marta is often regarded as the best female player of all time
and was given the nickname "Pele in skirts" by Pele
himself.[2][3][4] She was named FIFA World Player of the Year
five consecutive times between 2006 and 2010. She was a member
of the Brazilian national teams that won the silver medal at the
2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also awarded the Golden
Ball (MVP) at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, and
won both the Golden Ball award as the best player and the Golden
Boot award as the top scorer in the 2007 Women's World Cup after
leading Brazil to the final of the tournament.
In January 2013 she was named as one of the six Ambassadors of
the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, alongside Amarildo, Bebeto,
Carlos Alberto Torres, Ronaldo and Mario Zagallo.[5] She also
appeared in the Sveriges Television television documentary
series The Other Sport from 2013.
In August 2016, Marta was one of the 8 to carry the Olympic Flag
in the Olympic Games in Rio.
As of 14 March 2017, Marta has become a Swedish citizen. She's
stated that she'll keep her Brazilian citizenship.[6]
Years
2000–2002
2002–2004
2004–2008
2009
2009–2010
2010
2011
2011
2012–2014
2014–2017
2017–
2002
2002–
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_%28footballer%29
FIFA Women's Ranking:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 Korea DPR
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: Kerry Date: July 22, 2018, 1:37 pm
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I find it odd that the qualifying rounds started in April and
will wind up at the end of 2018. I think the women's matches
would get more coverage if they weren't competing with the
coverage of the men's World Cup. Wouldn't the women get more
coverage if the men's and women's cups were two years apart?
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: July 22, 2018, 5:02 pm
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Kerry - ^
I think FIFA might want the women to ride off the popularity of
the men as to the timing. If they go for two, it conflicts with
UEFA's Euro.
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: Kerry Date: July 22, 2018, 11:06 pm
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[quote author=paralambano link=topic=1343.msg19387#msg19387
date=1532296950]
Kerry - ^
I think FIFA might want the women to ride off the popularity of
the men as to the timing.
[/quote]If that's the theory, it's not working too well. Lots
of games have already been played, and I didn't hear about any
of them. I checked at goal.com and they had a few stories
that were remotely connected. There were only two stories from
2018.
HTML http://www.goal.com/en-us/womens-world-cup/1/8x62utr2uti3i7kk14isbnip6
3/22/18 How the USWNT's next star got back on track
1/23/18 Neville deletes Twitter account after sexist tweets
No stories about the matches that have already been played. No
stories about who's been eliminated already.
[quote]If they go for two, it conflicts with UEFA's
Euro.[/quote]
That's a men's event, isn't it? I don't see much of a
conflict.
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: July 23, 2018, 8:40 am
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Kerry -
[quote]If that's the theory, it's not working too well. Lots
of games have already been played, and I didn't hear about any
of them. I checked at goal.com and they had a few stories
that were remotely connected. There were only two stories from
2018.
HTML http://www.goal.com/en-us/womens-world-cup/1/8x62utr2uti3i7kk14isbnip6
3/22/18 How the USWNT's next star got back on track
1/23/18 Neville deletes Twitter account after sexist tweets
No stories about the matches that have already been played. No
stories about who's been eliminated already.[/quote]
Lookin' for love in all the wrong places :P.
Kerry, I'd say most people don't follow or care about
qualifiers. I'd venture to say that many sporting people don't
as well. Just tell me if they made it to the World Cup they
might say. There's a range of interest from very mild to those
who follow almost everything there is to follow in the sport. I
think I've mentioned it already but if I haven't I remember
sitting next to someone wearing an Italy kit-shirt and we talked
about soccer. This was a few months before this World Cup. I
asked him who he thought were most likely to win and he told me
that if his kit-country gets knocked out, he won't watch, he
doesn't care for the rest of it. Conversation over.
So, you might run into someone like me who cares a little more
about the sport and tries to find the pearl:
HTML https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/teams/index.html
and might know where to look about the female aspect of the game
which in many sports isn't as popular as the men's unfortunately
but the media's trying and doing better but people want the
steak in the end, the World Cup Finals and if people are not
interested in qualifiers, they'll keep their fingers crossed and
hope their nation will get into the Finals. That's just the way
it is here in North America where soccer is something like the
fifth most popular sport.
There's been interested generated in the sport by the Men's
World Cup and FIFA are probably hoping that having the Women's
just a year off might generally rub off on the women's game.
Now, that's not meant for me since I'll watch what I can of the
women when I can. Yesterday, for instance, I watched the Special
Olympics Women's Unified Cup Final from Toyota Park in Chicago
between Brazil and Slovakia and enjoyed it.
As Marta strongly suggested, there's work to be done in
informing the public of the beauty of the women's game. You see
how she timed her statements with the close of the Men's World
Cup.
[quote]That's a men's event, isn't it? I don't see much of a
conflict.[/quote]
You don't want a competition between the two as to who's
watching what if the tournaments coincide. You don't want to
have people to choose between them. The women should have their
own show-piece and their game should be enjoyed and stand on its
own merits instead of always being compared to the men's in
terms of viewership and male v female aspects. The women's game
is skillful, artful, and engaging on its own.
So far:
AFC qualified teams (5)
Australia
China PR
Japan
Korea Republic
Thailand
UEFA qualified teams (3)
France
Italy
Spain
CONMEBOL qualified teams (2)
Brazil
Chile
So, just reading this Kerry, you know more about it than most
sporting North Americans I'd say :).
Ol' yeller nail para . . . .
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: Kerry Date: July 24, 2018, 8:45 am
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So it's different by region I see. Some of the qualifiers in
some regions haven't started yet -- including the American ones.
That might explain why there's been so little news about it.
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: July 24, 2018, 10:35 am
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Kerry - ^
How much did you hear about the SheBelieves Cup 2018 or the
upcoming Tournament of Nations?
They're not World Cup qualifiers and only involve teams that you
can count on one hand but they have the number one ranked
woman's national team globally there. They too can give some
idea as to who might be representing the USA in France next
June.
Ol' "hello, operator?" para . . . .
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: July 25, 2018, 8:55 am
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The Trophy:
HTML https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_640x362/HT/p1/2015/06/05/Incoming/Pictures/1355497_Wallpaper2.jpg
Nearly 18" tall
Made by William Sawaya of the Milanese company Sawaya & Moroni
Pure sterling silver covered by 23-karat yellow gold, soccer
ball plated in white gold; marble base
3.96 lbs.
Monetary value $30,000
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Re: FIFA World Cup (Women) France 2019
By: paralambano Date: July 25, 2018, 9:11 am
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The Venues:
Stade des Alpes - Grenoble
Stade Océane - Le Havre
Stade de Lyon - Lyon
Stade de la Mosson - Montpellier
Stade de Nice - Nice
Parc des Princes - Paris
Stade Auguste-Delaune - Reims
Roazhon Park - Rennes
Stade de Hainaut - Valenciennes
HTML https://www.roadtrips.com/soccer-packages/2019-womens-world-cup/venues/
Looks gorgeous to me :).
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