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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 ...
Netflix’s documentary “It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football” hit the platform on Nov. 1 and has changed the conversation around women’s soccer in Spain in the weeks since.
After Spain beat England in the World Cup final, now-disgraced former president of the Royal Spanish Football Association, Luis Rubiales, handed out winners medals to the players.
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.
BBC Sport looks at the significant number of dropped catches at the Women's T20 World Cup so far and the possible explanations.
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.
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 ...
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.