FIFA Women’s World Cup finals

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FiFA Women’s Cup championship match
The United States vs. Sweden-Netherlands winner
Sunday, July 7, 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Lyon, France

Outstanding semi-final match between USA and England yesterday.
USA 2, England 1
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Let’s not forget the match for third place:

England vs. Sweden or the Netherlands
Saturday July 6 at 5pm Central European Summer Time (11am EDT)
Lyon, France
 
If they played like they did against the USA, England should win.
 
That would be the logical outcome. I’ll reserve judgment until the end of the match that just started, though. 😉
 
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Hats off to the Netherlands, though. A rising star for real. :netherlands: ⭐ ❤️
 
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It was a great game! The Holland golie was fantastic. But the US team was better.!!!

Cheers ladies!
 
Netherlands plays good football, but the Americans simply had more experienced players and a lot more depth.
It will be interesting to see how many of the players on the US team will return for 2023.
Rose Levelle looks like the new young star in American football. Great foot work and very quick.
 
Sweden gave a better effort. That is why they won the match. I do believe that England had a better team.
Interestingly, the USA played all three of the other top teams in the tournament, including Netherlands, Sweden, and England. They also played tough teams from France and Spain.
 
Sweden were better on the day. I was actually surprised at how ineffective England was, given their huge collective talent.

The US has what I consider to be the best developed women’s soccer program in the world. Under the circumstances, it’s difficult for anyone else to find a crack to squeeze through. Women’s soccer in the Netherlands is still a work in progress, so much so that none of their top players play in their own country at domestic league level. Nevertheless, they have a promising group in the current national team, the vast majority of whom are relatively young. The Dutch team as a whole is younger on average than the US women, with two players 30 and older compared to eleven for the US in the same age bracket. I expect much from them in the future. :+1:t3:
 
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There are a lot of good younger American players, but with so many of the other women continuing to play, it is hard for the younger players to break through to the national team.
If it were possible, the Americans could have fielded two entries in the World Cup and both would likely have done well.
 
I haven’t denied any of that. It’s part and parcel of having the best developed program in world (IMO).
 
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It is interesting to me how well the American women play as opposed to the American men. The American women as as dominant in the world game as the American men are not. Quite the contrast.
 
In the US, many sports compete for the attention of the men. Unlike other countries, soccer isn’t at the top of the list and probably not even in the top three. I suspect that the USSF was able to pour a lot of effort and resources into developing the women’s side because they had both to spare. While other nations (Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Italy, etc.) have made great strides in establishing women’s soccer and improving its quality, their priority has long been supporting the men. Domestic women’s leagues are still emerging in countries where the equivalent for men has been long established and thriving.
 
Title IX is responsible for women’s football in America.
To balance men’s programs in college, schools had to put women into women’s sports. Soccer was the beneficiary.
 
I thought Title IX only applied to the university system…? 🤔

I probably should have been more clear that I was referring to the professional system in my previous post. 😊
 
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The United States won the final on the field, but not in the ratings. In the U.S., 15.2 million viewers watched the final on television, compared with 19.9 million in Brazil, which wasn’t even playing in that game.

Even more people watched the game that Brazil lost 2-0 to France in the round of 16. The worldwide total was an all-time record for women’s soccer: 59 million viewers, 35 million of them – close to 60 percent – in Brazil alone.
 
That shouldn’t be surprising. Soccer (futebol! 😁) is the number one sport in Brazil. Nothing else even comes close. ⚽

OTOH, as noted earlier in the US it’s not even in the top three. 🏈 ⚾ 🏀… then somewhere over here, ⚽.
 
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That shouldn’t be surprising. Soccer ( futebol! 😁) is the number one sport in Brazil. Nothing else even comes close. ⚽
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And imagine… when the Brazilian women will be allowed to play the game!! Because currently they are excluded.

But also remember:


Maybe the Brazilian women will make a “revenge” sometime in the future. 🙂
 
I’m not sure what you mean. Brazil’s national women’s soccer team has participated in all eight editions of the Women’s World Cup (best results: second in 2007, third in 1999) as well as all eight editions of the Copa América Femenina (winning all but the one in 2006, in which it lost to Argentina in the final).

It used to be illegal (!) for women to play soccer in Brazil, but that ended in 1979.
 
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