Spain won U-17 and U-20 FIFA Women’s World Cups last year La Roja secured maiden senior title with 1-0 final win over England on Sunday Salma Paralluelo the first player in history of any gender to win all three The rise of La Roja has been scarcely believable. They have blazed a trail at global youth tournaments […]
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We chart Spain’s short history of appearing at the FIFA Women’s World Cup and what has led La Roja to ultimate glory in just eight years since making their debut in the competition. When Spain made their debut appearance at the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ eight years ago, they did so with much still to […]
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Previous winners USA, Germany, Norway and Japan were all eliminated before the tournament in Australia and New Zealand reached the semi-final stage. The ninth Women’s World Cup was lifted by first-time champions Spain USA had won four of the eight previous editions Germany (2), Norway and Japan the only other teams to have triumphed Spain […]
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Jorge Vilda’s side are on top of the world after a solitary Olga Carmona strike earned an impressive and thoroughly merited win over the European champions. Olga Carmona’s well-worked goal earns La Roja a maiden title Mary Earps’ heroics not enough to inspire an England side outplayed on the night Spain 1-0 England | Final […]
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The University of the Western Cape (UWC) are the 2023 Women’s Varsity Football champions after a comfortable 2-0 win over defending champions the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in the final played at the TUT Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday, 19 August 2023. It was a repeat of last year’s final but this time the roles […]
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Well, thank you, thank you very much, Carol (Tshabalala), for this welcome. It’s great – it’s great to be here. It is really fantastic, a great, great setting, many people from all over the world. Many friends, (FIFA) Council members, Minister, delegates from all the associations all over the world. The (FIFA) Legends, here in […]
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FIFA President was speaking at the Second FIFA Women’s Football Convention in Sydney Gianni Infantino requests all stakeholders to pledge to pay a fair price and respect women’s football Australia Minister for Sport said the tournament has changed women’s sport Gianni Infantino has said that the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ has transformed the face […]
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The women’s varsity football final is set to take place on Saturday 19 August and it will be déjà vu as UJ face UWC in a repeat of last year’s final. The two football powerhouses were very evenly matched last year where the title was decided on penalties after ending scoreless in regulation time. It […]
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For the first time in the history of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, two Confederations co-hosted the competition –Oceania Football Confederation and the Asian Football Confederation, welcoming 30 other countries to their shores. It was also the first time that such a large number of participants had taken part in the tournament – up from 24 […]
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There have only been four winners of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and all of them have been knocked out – which means the final on Sunday for the 2023 edition will be contested by completely new teams. The USA, who lifted the trophy a record four times, were looking to become the first nation […]