England star Earps wins illustrious honour Award recognises most outstanding goalkeeper in women’s game from 7 August 2021 to 31 July 2022 Winner revealed at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2022 in Paris Mary Earps has been crowned as The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper 2022. Earps was one of England’s standout players as the nation […]
Category Archives: National Teams
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Wiegman tops vote ahead of finalists Bompastor and Sundhage Winner revealed at Paris ceremony on 27 February 2023 Dutch coach won Women’s EURO 2022 with England Sarina Wiegman has won The Best FIFA Women’s Coach award for the third time. Wiegman has been recognised with the distinguished honour after guiding England to UEFA Women’s EURO […]
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Award recognises most outstanding performer in women’s game from 7 August 2021 to 31 July 2022 Putellas scored 34 goals across all competitions last season Winner announced at The Best FIFA Football Awards on 27 February 2023 Alexia Putellas has won The Best FIFA Women’s Player award for the second successive year. The Spain midfielder […]
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All 32 teams that will participate in the history-making 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup have been confirmed. At the start of this year, 29 spots were filled with only three spaces remaining – and these were determined at the inaugural Play-off tournament, featuring 10 teams: AFC (Asia): Chinese Taipei, Thailand CAF (Africa): Cameroon, Senegal CONCACAF […]
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Fresh from lifting their maiden Women’s European Championship in July last year, the England Senior Women’s National Team has been nominated for the Laureus World Team of the Year. The England Lionesses defeated old rivals and eight-time champions Germany 2-1 in a pulsating EURO 2022 final at Wembley – with substitute Chloe Kelly netting the […]
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Haiti became the 30th country to qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup – their first ever appearance at the tournament. This was after a brace from Melchie Dumornay secured a 2-1 victory over Chile in the FIFA Women’s World Cup play-offs. Haiti was joined by fellow debutants Portugal who brushed aside Cameroon by the […]
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On the morning (Monday, 6 February 2023) of announcing her squad to travel to Türkiye, Banyana Banyana head coach and the whole world was greeted by news of a devastating earthquake that had hit that country and neighbouring Syria. After a lot of back and forth, hours of consultation with several stakeholders – FIFA, SA […]
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Twenty nine countries have already been confirmed for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, including co-hosts Australia and New Zealand. Only three spots remain to complete biggest pool of competition in the tournament – 32 – for the first time ever. The FIFA Women’ World Cup will be played from 20 July to 20 August […]
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Desiree Ellis, head coach of the South African Senior Women’s National Team, Banyana Banyana, has paid tribute to Ghana’s fallen hero, Christian Atsu. Ellis’ condolences come after the West African winger’s lifeless body was flown to his home country after he perished following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on two weeks […]
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Head coach of the Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana, Desiree Ellis, is considering making changes to her team when they face Slovenia in the second match of the Turkish Women’s Cup currently underway in Antalya, Türkiye. The African champions defeated Uzbekistan in their first fixture at the tournament, winning by a comfortable 3-0, despite having only a […]