Posted on 07/19/2023 1:41:45 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Ticket sales for the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand have set a new record, one day out from the start of tournament.
Close to 1.4 million tickets have been purchased for the 64 matches running until 20 August, surpassing the record total for the tournament eight years ago in Canada.
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1.4 million divided by 64 is 21,875 people per game. The finals will have good crowds, but a lot if the games will have hardly anyone there.
I predict there will be lots of Freepers posting on the Women’s World Cup threads to let us know how much they are not interested in the Women’s World Cup.
I’ll watch women’s tennis, but Soccer is like watching paint dry.
What Soccer is.😂
I hope we get a threepeat.
That would really stoke the fire of fandom.
As always thanks for your excellent thoughtful posts sphinx.
I hope our FRiend KC_Lion comes back and posts too.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
Unfortunately my favorite German player Giulia Gwinn is out on injury.
Mallory Swanson (Pugh) for the U.S. is also out. She finally came into her own last season and became the player everyone had anticipated. She’s also still young and was just entering her athletic prime. Bang. Torn patellar tendon. Surgery. Gone. Until she went down, she had emerged as the national team’s top scorer as a winger, plus amazing speed, touch, passing, etc. The complete package. I honestly don’t think there is another player in the world right now who could have matched up with her. This should have been her World Cup. Huge loss for the team. Yes, the U.S. team has depth, but you can’t replace a Mal Swanson.
Another sad case.
And that is after she was dropped from the National Team for a while.
The Women’s World Cup will be broadcast live in the US on the FOX network, FOX Sports 1 (English) and Telemundo (Spanish) TV channels. It will also be available to stream on Fubo, Sling Blue, Peacock Premium and DirecTV, as well as the FOX Sports and Telemundo Deportes apps.FOX will air 29 of the 64 games, including the quarterfinals, semi-finals and final while the other matches will be available to watch on FOX Sports 1 (FS1).
USWNT players Sophia Smith and Naomi Girma say they will be thinking of their late college teammate, Katie Meyer, as they kick off their World Cup campaign in New Zealand later this week.Meyer played alongside Smith and Girma on the Stanford team that won a national college title in 2019. She took her own life last year at the age of 22.
Let's take a closer look at the first USWNT opponent at the World Cup
United States women's national soccer team midfielder Andi Sullivan said she is "crushed" for injured teammate Christen Press, who is facing a fourth surgery as she attempts to come back from a torn ACL.Press, 34, was a key player on the 2019 U.S. team that won its second consecutive World Cup, including scoring a critical goal in the 2-1 semifinal win over England.
But she tore her right ACL in June 2022 while playing for Angel City FC and subsequently struggled to get back on the field, having had multiple surgeries since.
Press posted the news of her latest setback on Instagram, stating that her surgeon and physical therapist told her in February to let go of the dream of making the World Cup roster. And yet, she said, "Until the roster was announced, there wasn't a day that passed over the last year that I didn't believe I could be there."
"My days are mostly good," Press later added.
Netflix docu-series to follow USWNT at 2023 Women’s World CupThreepeat! Threepeat! Threepeat!
Threepeat!
Mallory was called up too soon, at age 17. She showed great promise and fell into the trap of excessive expectations. She then turned pro right after high school. Again, she showed great promise, but at that age, she wasn’t the water walker people were expecting. I think it all got to her. She lost her spot on the national team, got traded in the NWSL and got a fresh start.
In retrospect, she’s a classic case of a kid who got too much, too fast. She should have spent at least a couple of years in college, growing up, maturing physically, and toughening up her game.
The good news is that she regrouped, refocused on her game, and then broke out as the rising superstar whose potential everyone had sensed from the outset. It probably helped that She and Dabney Swanson got married; while I don’t obsess over the private lives of athletes, who deserve to be left alone if they want to keep their private lives private, she was obviously a young woman in her early 20s living in a fishbowl and trying to deal with a long distance relationship. That’s all done.
She had everything squared away and was brilliant on the field. Again, this was shaping up to be HER World Cup. Then the injury — a non-contact injury, by the way.
Andie Sullivan also came up very young and had established herself as a lock in midfield for the next decade. Then ACL tears knocked her out of two consecutive World Cups. She’s finally healthy this year, and I hope she has a great tournament. She will probably age out by the next World Cup, so she is a sentimental favorite. Injuries are cruel.
"Police are responding to reports of a serious incident on Quay St, Auckland CBD, this morning," the statement read. "A number of armed Police are currently responding and the public is asked to please stay indoors and avoid the area."
Six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central business district.
PM Chris Hipkins said the attack was not being seen as an act of terrorism. The tournament would go ahead as planned, he said.
The Curse Stalking Women’s Soccer
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