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Following a period of growth, the Spain women's football team won the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup; after the victory in the final, then-Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso, among other incidents comprising the Rubiales case. The kiss received an instant negative response from onlookers around ...
There were various controversies relating to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup; such issues predominantly saw figures within women's football negatively responding to decisions undertaken by FIFA, the world governing body of football, as well as players from several nations taking collective action against their national football associations.
The 2023 World Cup was shiny new evidence of that. The 2027 World Cup — especially if co-hosted by the U.S. and Mexico — will surely be another extravaganza, and could be accompanied by equal pay.
In May 2024, Mwape was again accused of sexual assault, this time on a FIFA employee during the World Cup. [ 13 ] In July 2024, he was banned from private contact with his players at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games , while FIFA continued to investigate claims that he had rubbed his hands over a player's chest at the 2023 World Cup in New Zealand.
To kickstart this catch-up, FIFA last year devised a new marketing concept dedicated to women's soccer, and began to sell Women's World Cup sponsorship and broadcast rights separately.
The Haitian men’s team qualified for the 1974 World Cup, but this is the first time the women’s team made it. “Les Grenadiers qualified for the 2023 World Cup by beating Chile 2-1 in New ...
Only four players have scored more than one hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup: Sándor Kocsis (two in 1954), Just Fontaine (two in 1958), Gerd Müller (two in 1970) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994 and 1998) — the latter being the only player in history to score hat-tricks at two World Cups. 19 players have scored a hat-trick in the knockout stage ...
On Thursday night, with Megan Rapinoe jetting back from the White House, and a majority of the 2019 core on the bench or absent, the U.S. women qualified for the 2023 World Cup with ease. They ...