Rich Laverty
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Freelance women's football writer. Featured in The Athletic, The Guardian, The Times, FourFourTwo, World Soccer, These Football Times, OPTUS Sport and more.
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All the build-up content you need before today's games...
- In-depth preview of all 12 teams
- Racheal Kundananji Profile
- USA's development in 12 months
- Behind the Scenes with Nigeria
- Canada's spygate own goal
- France vs Colombia from the 2015 WWC
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🇩🇪 Germany (2nd)
🇨🇦 Canada (7th)
🇧🇷 Brazil (8th)
🇨🇳 China (14th)
🇮🇹 Italy (16th)
🇰🇷 Korea Republic (17th)
5 Top 20 ranked sides all out in the group stage.
🇲🇦 Morocco (72nd)
🇿🇦 South Africa (54th)
🇯🇲 Jamaica (43rd)
🇳🇬 Nigeria (40th)
All through to the second round.
#FIFAWWC
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Every single player who has reached the second round of the World Cup is due $60,000 from FIFA, via their federations.
Life changing for many players. FIFA has to make sure the players get it.
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What every player at the World Cup should now be due from FIFA.
$270,000 🇪🇸
$195,000 🏴
$180,000 🇸🇪
$165,000 🇦🇺
$90,000 🇳🇱🇯🇵🇫🇷🇨🇴
$60,000 🇨🇭🇿🇦🇳🇴🇩🇰🇲🇦🇳🇬🇯🇲
$30,000 🇳🇿🇵🇭🇨🇦🇮🇪🇿🇲🇨🇷🇨🇳🇭🇹🇵🇹🇻🇳🇧🇷🇵🇦🇮🇹🇦🇷🇩🇪🇰🇷
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Group A - All 4 teams can qualify
Group B - 3 teams can qualify
Group C - Spain/Japan through
Group D - All 4 teams can qualify
Group E - 3 teams can qualify
Group F - 3 teams can qualify
Group G - Sweden through. 3 teams can qualify.
In for a 🔥🔥🔥 last round of games.
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When you consider South Africa's players sat out their final pre-tournament friendly, Jamaica needed a GoFundMe & Nigeria's head coach had to openly criticise his federation, it is incredible all three have qualified for the second round.
The 32-team World Cup has been a success
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Two goalkeepers who are 23 and 22. Morgan 22, Stanway still just 24, Toone 23, James 21, Hemp still just 23, Robinson 21, Russo 24, Charles and Wubben-Moy 24.
Le Tissier and Park both 21.
This England squad not at its peak yet, lots to look forward to but have to develop too.
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Will be a three match ban. If England's tournament isn't over, James's is.
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I can only assume Rubiales has a lot of dirty laundry the RFEF are terrified he'll air if they get rid because this is now beyond ridiculous.
To summarise this week: Luis Rubiales will not leave, his mother is willing to starve herself so that he does not leave and the Spanish FA are open to entirely self-destructing Spanish football to prevent him from leaving. Its 11am on Monday morning.
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The team ranked 5th in the world has seen arguably its 3 most important players announce they will not play for the team.
The team ranked 6th has threatened to go on strike if things don't improve/change.
The team ranked 7th has lost 15 of its best players for the same reason.
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48,000 people at a women's football match in Spain.
Turns out people do care.
Athletic vs Atletico, copa femenina. Algo diferentes ya somos.48000 y subiendo! Aupa Athletic
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More iconic Ella Toone:
"I'm off to Ibiza tomorrow, get home, get my lashes done. I'm going for a week, I don't know what day it is.
"Got lashes done, and they fell out, now I'm at the final with no lashes, it's a nightmare. I'm actually really gutted. My nails have come off."
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Reminder in 2027 we will be heading to one of the following...
🇺🇸🇲🇽
🇧🇪🇳🇱🇩🇪
🇧🇷
🇿🇦
Decision in May 2024.
#FIFAWWC
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While every England player ran down the pitch to celebrate with Kelly and Earps, Leah Williamson went straight to the Brazil team to shake their hands and the officials before joining in.
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In 45 minutes, Japan spent 27 seconds in Spain's final third.
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You can replace Mead, you can replace Williamson. That role is one area England could not lose a key player.
But firstly I just feel for Walsh.
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It was not announced but via FIFA official documents Jenni Hermoso awarded the Silver Ball and Amanda Ilestedt the Bronze Ball.
Kadidiatou Diani Silver Boot and Alex Popp Bronze Boot.
Japan wins the Fair Play Award.
#FIFAWWC
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I don't buy the sort of 'demise of the USA' narrative. This team is the combined end of one era and the start of another, but I'd fully expect a team led by a more experienced Smith, Rodman, Thompson, Fox, Girma etc to be just as frightening in the future.
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Norway beat Philippines, who beat New Zealand, who beat Norway.
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After Sweden vs USA and England vs Nigeria, I'm not sure I have the brain capacity remaining for another football match.
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Again, due to FIFA and FOX believing USA would be in the top side of the draw, it means the first quarter-final between Spain and Netherlands kicks off at 2am UK time on Friday, 3am in the two participating countries.
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Spain's completed passes vs Japan completed passes.
3-0 Japan...
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Beth Wales and Beth Scotland, show yourselves.
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The BBC commentary being a second or so ahead of the action isn't going to get annoying at all.
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For a player who was told when she was younger she'd never play for England, she did it 84 times, and is a European champion. Leaves on her own terms but will be a big loss to the Lionesses.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened 🏴❤️
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Barbra Banda scores the 1000th
#FIFAWWC
goal!
1st - Li Ma
110th - Silvia Neid
200th - Julie Foudy
300th - Marianne Pettersen
400th - Alberta Sackey
500th - Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
600th - Jill Scott
700th - Melanie Leupolz
800th - Sam Mewis
900th - Lucy Bronze
1000th - Barbra Banda
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Germany beat Morocco 6-0, who beat Colombia, who beat Germany.
Norway beat Philippines, who beat New Zealand, who beat Norway.
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Beth Mead has been named 2021/22 England Women's Player of the Year.
1st - Beth Mead
2nd - Leah Williamson
3rd - Keira Walsh
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HarperCollins is to publish 'What It Takes', a book from England head coach Sarina Wiegman, on 9th November.
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Euro 2017 ✅️
World Cup 2019 ✅️
Euro 2022 ✅️
World Cup 2023 ✅️
Four finals in a row for Sarina Wiegman.
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Players a booking away from missing a
#FIFAWWC
semi-final:
🇪🇸 Hernandez
🇪🇸 Carmona
🇸🇪 Asllani
🇸🇪 Schough
🇦🇺 Foord
🇦🇺 Van Egmond
🇦🇺 Arnold
🇨🇴 Perez
🇨🇴 Arias
🇨🇴 Arias
🇨🇴 Ospina
🇨🇴 Bedoya
🏴 L Bronze
🏴 G Stanway
🏴 L Hemp
🇫🇷 Toletti
🇫🇷 Karchaoui
🇫🇷 Mateo
🇫🇷 Dali
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The FA has entered into a licensing partnership with Panini to create the first ever UK domestic football sticker collection to celebrate the Barclays Women's Super League.
Collection will feature nearly 350 stickers from all 12 clubs and hit the shelves in December.
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FAI statement regarding Republic of Ireland's friendly with Colombia today.
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The 9 automatic qualifiers for Euro 2025...
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇪🇸 Spain
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇫🇷 France
🏴 England
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
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3 counter attacks. 3 goals. This is devastatingly clinical.
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The FA, in collaboration with UEFA and The PFA, today announces the first-ever all-
female cohort for the UEFA A Licence course.
Includes Steph Houghton, Vivianne Miedema, Kim Little, Beth Mead, Zecira Musovic and more.
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"Do you think you did enough to win the game?"
Wiegman: "No, otherwise we would've won the game..."
😂
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UK TV audience peaked at 7.6m last night, with a further 1.5m watching via streams.
Spain TV audience peaked at 4.9m viewers, with 2.4m watching the whole game.
No further comments...
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39 Spain players have signed a statement and won't be available for a call-up. 3pm squad announcement has been delayed indefinitely.
Of the WWC 23, Claudia Zornoza and Athenea del Castillo remain available for selection.
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ENGLAND LEAD. THE SHIRT IS OFF. CHLOE KELLY JUST MADE HERSELF A HERO.
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Updated
#FIFAWWC
2nd Round...
Absolutely none of this looks anything like I thought it would!
Switzerland v Spain
Netherlands v South Africa
Japan v Norway
Sweden v USA
Australia v Denmark
France v H RU
England v Nigeria
H W v Jamaica
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FA WSL refereeing at its finest. Play should have been stopped and the Arsenal manager gets a booking from the referee who made the mistake which has cost his team.
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Caitlin Foord has torn Canada to shreds down that left side.
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I've run out of words for this Spain/RFEF situation. They've clearly learned nothing.
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All coming to the FA WSL in 2020
Alex Morgan
Rose Lavelle
Sam Mewis
Christen Press
Tobin Heath
Pernille Harder
Lucy Bronze
Alex Greenwood
Jessie Fleming
Steph Catley
Jess Fishlock
Rachel Daly
Valerie Gauvin
Emily van Egmond
Alanna Kennedy
Who'd have thought it?
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If it's THIS Norway you get in the next round against Spain or Japan, you have yourselves a game.
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Alex Greenwood with just four incomplete passes in the World Cup semi-final.
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Tomorrow's players a booking away from missing a
#FIFAWWC
QF:
🇦🇺 C Foord
🇦🇺 E van Egmond
🇦🇺 M Arnold
🇩🇰 R Sevecke
🇩🇰 K Holmgaard
🏴 L Bronze
🏴 G Stanway
🏴 L Hemp
🇳🇬 A Oshoala
🇳🇬 O Demehin
🇳🇬 M Alozie
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The UEFA Football Board will meet on Monday to discuss various issues surrounding the women's game.
It's a pretty impressive board.
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The most impressive aspect of Japan's play for me is a specific plan for all three teams they've faced.
Made key tweaks for each one, set up totally different today to exploit Spain and shows some of the depth they have in their squad.
Success at youth level paying off...
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Tomorrow's players a booking away from missing a
#FIFAWWC
QF:
🇳🇱 Danielle van de Donk
🇿🇦 Tiisetso Makhubela
🇿🇦 Refiloe Jane
🇸🇪 Olivia Schough
🇺🇸 Naomi Girma
🇺🇸 Lindsey Horan
🇺🇸 Sophia Smith
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Looking at DAZN UWCL YouTube channel views...
BK Hacken vs Lyon
Swedish - 14k
English - 59k
French - 30k
Hoffenheim v HB Køge
Danish - 4k
English - 19k
German - 13k
Benfica v Bayern
German - 7.5k
English - 16k
Portuguese - 16k
Barcelona v Arsenal
Spanish - 21k
English - 67k
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The toughest day but the most beautiful tribute for Maddy. Hard to see the emotion in on all players and staff today. ⚔️❤️
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FIFA Disciplinary Committee has opened disciplinary proceedings against Luis Rubiales.
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When we played Jamaica in the world's most random friendly in April, there was a film crew doing a documentary on them.
Going to be a hell of a watch at this rate.
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USA go out having conceded 2 shots on target in 4 matches.
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Manchester City will wear an Emmeline Pankhurst inspired one-off kit against Tottenham on Sunday to mark International Women's Day.
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England will be in their blue away kit in Wednesday's semi-final against Australia.
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Players from the
#FIFAWWC
📷 heading to the WSL for the first time this season (so far):
Amanda Ilestedt
Cloe Lacasse
Daphne van Domselaar
Sjoeke Nusken
Ashley Lawrence
Teagan Micah
Luana Buhler
Lize Kop
Geyse
Laia Codina
+
Jill Roord returning.
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Australia and Japan qualify for the Paris Olympics.
🇫🇷 France
🇺🇸 USA
🇨🇦 Canada
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇦🇺 Australia
🇯🇵 Japan
🇪🇸 Spain
🇳🇱🇩🇪 Netherlands/Germany
🇳🇬🇿🇦 Nigeria/South Africa
🇬🇭🇿🇲🇹🇳🇲🇦 Ghana/Zambia/Tunisia/Morocco
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England's front three have had 5 shots on/off target.
Lucy Bronze has had 4 herself.
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West Ham requested their Premier League match at home to Southampton on May 4th be moved from 3pm to 12:30pm so fans could attend both that and the Women's FA Cup final.
Premier League has turned down the request. Really disappointing.
Via Reuters:
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One other thing I really like about Jamaica's story and performances is not only has their centre-back pairing been solid as a rock (only team not to concede), they're sisters.
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I hadn't really considered it but England vs Ireland next round would be...fun.
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Tomorrow's players a booking away from missing the second round:
🇩🇰 Rikke Sevecke
🏴 Lauren Hemp
🏴 Georgia Stanway
🇭🇹 Melchie Dumornay
🇭🇹 Dayana Pierre-Louis
🇳🇱 Danielle van de Donk
🇵🇹 Ana Borges
🇵🇹 Jessica Silva
🇵🇹 Diana Gomes
🇺🇸 Lindsey Horan
🇺🇸 Rose Lavelle
#FIFAWWC
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Liga F has now released a strong statement denouncing the behaviour of RFEF President Luis Rubiales.
🚨 Comunicado oficial: Liga F presenta una denuncia ante el CSD solicitando la inhabilitación del presidente de la RFEF.
#LigaF
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Leah Williamson lifts her third piece of silverware in 12 months as England captain.
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Jill Scott will captain England at Soccer Aid this year on Sunday 11th June at Old Trafford.
Karen Carney will also be playing for the first time and Eni Aluko will be part of the England team again too.
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Miyazawa has had 6 shots on target this tournament and scored 5 of them.
Importantly for Japan, heading to the QFs without a booking to their name in four games either.
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FA confirm all women's football matches at every level will take place as planned this weekend.
Means WSL will kick off with Arsenal vs Brighton on Friday night.
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Sarina Wiegman has now led teams to the Euro 2017, 2019 World Cup and Euro 2022 finals.
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Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze now champions of Europe for club and country.
Bronze's fourth UWCL, Walsh's first, Barca's second.
Chelsea straight into next season's group stage.
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Shoutout to Alessia Russo, to lead the line like that in both games after going to Oz and back no mean feat, thought she did it excellently tonight.
Hemp too, we've become so used to her level but she assisted all three goals over the past two games.
Hampton save superb.
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Nice quote from Jill Scott on Lucy Bronze.
"Lucy's really not emotional but I think I've told her I love her about 50 times tonight. I think she was absolute incredible tonight. I think sometimes we take her performances for granted because she's Lucy Bronze..."
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🚨🇳🇱 Aston Villa have signed FC Twente and Netherlands goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar on a three-year deal to 2026.
Another big catch for Carla Ward and her side.
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🚨 Barclays has extended its deal to sponsor the FA WSL until 2025 and will double its investment into the sport to £30m.
In significant news, Barclays will also become the title sponsor of the FA Women's Championship next season too.
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The FIFA Disciplinary Committee provisionally suspends Luis Rubiales, president of the RFEF, for 90 days.
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England now 3rd in Group A with 2 games to go.
Need to beat Netherlands with a better score than they lost by last month, follow it up by beating Scotland and hope Belgium drop points in either of their games.
Don't beat Netherlands at Wembley and no Team GB next summer.
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Sam Kerr is OUT of Australia vs Republic of Ireland with a calf injury picked up in MD-1 training.
She is also out of Australia's second match too.
Massive.
#FIFAWWC
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Beth Mead has 6 goals and 5 assists.
In a major tournament.
In 5 games.
The more you read that, honestly, the more ridiculous it gets.
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The FA Cup winners this year take home £430,000, up from £100,000 last season.
Overall, Manchester United will earn £814,000 from their run to the trophy.
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No real words for today, just devastated. I'll remember the five years working with Maddy off the field as fondly as I'll remember watching her be brilliant on it. ❤️
Sheffield United Football Club is devastated to report the sad news of the passing of Maddy Cusack.
The Club and Maddy’s family would appreciate a period of privacy and will not comment further at this sad time.
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Never thought I'd hear Lionesses commentary played over the New Year fireworks, but here we are.
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Only 6 teams went unbeaten throughout the group stage of
#WEURO2022
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England, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, France...
...and...
...Iceland.
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Tomorrow morning is officially World Cup warm-up morning (ish):
1:30am - Vietnam vs Spain
8am - New Zealand vs Italy
10:30am - Australia vs France
11am - Colombia vs Rep of Ireland
11am - Japan vs Panama
And, at some point...England vs Canada.
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Further info. Understand Cooney-Cross flew into London this morning after deal was agreed yesterday.
Joint story with
@Stillmanator
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Arsenal have moved for Hammarby and Australia midfielder Kyra Cooney-Cross.
Several clubs wanted to wait until January, Arsenal decided not to take the risk.
Understand it's a big fee despite contract up in December.
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Ask once, fine, but you know what the answer will be. To continue asking and asking, not for me.
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Lucy Staniforth now officially the first WSL player to play for SEVEN different teams.
Albeit, it's her own record she's breaking, because she was the first of only two players to play for six.
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Final FIFA tournament rankings:
1 🇪🇸
2 🏴
3 🇸🇪
4 🇦🇺
5 🇯🇵
6 🇫🇷
7 🇳🇱
8 🇨🇴
9 🇺🇸
10 🇳🇬
11 🇩🇰
12 🇲🇦
13 🇯🇲
14 🇨🇭
15 🇳🇴
16 🇿🇦
17 🇩🇪
18 🇧🇷
19 🇵🇹
20 🇳🇿
21 🇨🇦
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23 🇨🇳
24 🇵🇭
25 🇿🇲
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Beth Mead is now 3/10 favourite to be named BBC Sport Personality of the Year.
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Emma Hayes confirms Fran Kirby is available for Sunday's FA Cup final.
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