Find out more about team profiles, venue guides and star players to watch out for with the definitive illustrated guide to FIFA Women's World Cup Australia/New Zealand 2023 that no football fan should be without. Taking place between the 20th July and 20th August which of the 32 teams competing is your favourite to win?

Players didn't like it either. Norway forward Ada Hegerberg said in a sarcastic post on social media external-link that she was "working on a little presentation to convince men".A content analysis of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand online news media coverage of the bid process for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: We did it Spain's tournament build-up was marked by unrest in the camp and player revolts but, despite a deserved maiden World Cup win, further negative attention came the nation's way because of the actions of the man at the top of their federation. Stadium Australia was filled with yellow shirts in the stands - Colombia fans were on their feet waving scarves around their heads following any advance over the halfway line and they whistled loudly when England were in possession. Two weeks before the 2011 World Cup began, Fifa issued its current gender recognition policies, which require teams to sign a declaration guaranteeing that players chosen for the World Cup are “of an appropriate gender”. Those rules state that: “It lies with each participating member association to … ensure the correct gender of all players by actively investigating any perceived deviation in secondary sex characteristic.” I speak as one who has (late in life) been won over to the beautiful game by this splendid team of valiant women. This is because they play spectacular football. Also, thanks to excellent commentating by their former colleagues, I have gained an understanding of how the game is actually played - something male commentators have never even attempted to provide. In addition to a greater appreciation of tactics and strategies, I have come to realise something sports journalists deliberately obscue - if one team is to win, the other must lose.

Sunak and Prince William's absences from Sunday's final were also notable. Climate impact explanations were raised, but many questioned external-link if the British Prime Minister and president of the Football Association would have missed a World Cup final if it had featured Gareth Southgate's men? Spain's kiss-gate and unwanted attention Contextualising and chronicling the gender equality provisions in FIFA’s 2016 governance reforms: Situating the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 All-in-all, it was a positive performance to match a result which ensures England are just two matches away from glory.

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Heading into the quarter-finals, England's Earps said "there was more to come from them", having not shown their best aside from an impressive 6-1 thrashing of China. No one understands the thing about shaving but we do as we are told and think ‘how did it get to this?’ Why are we forced to do this now, there has to be other ways to do this. Should we refuse? Elsewhere, the draw between the US and the Netherlands was watched by 7.93 million viewers on Fox and Telemundo, making it the largest combined English and Spanish-language audience in the States for a Women’s World Cup group stage match. The USWNT’s round of 16 loss to Sweden pulled in an average of 2.52 million viewers and peaked at 4.07 million on Fox, down 20 per cent on the team’s equivalent fixture in the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which was played in a more favourable time slot.