2023 Women's World Cup - Australia & New Zealand

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Post by McLewis Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:13 pm

Creating a thread to track major news for this competition.

Here are the qualified nations and groups:






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Post by McLewis Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:17 pm

8 nations will be making their first appearance at the World Cup:

Haiti
Morocco
Panama
The Philippines
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Vietnam
Zambia

I'm particularly excited to see Haiti and Portugal. Haiti has a rising generational talent on their hands with Melchie Dumornay, who is signing with Lyon.

Portugal turned some heads at the Euros and are lead by star forward Jessica Silva of Benfica. Sporting's Diana Silva is also another one to keep an eye on.

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Post by McLewis Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:33 pm

The French are among the favorites, but are going to have to head Down Under without their star defender and captain, Wendie Renard:



As with the men's side, controversy has surrounded the women's side as well. This is the Daily Mail, but I think they've captured the problems accurately:

On paper, France are one of the strongest teams in the competition. Their squad has experience in the likes of Wendie Renard as well as young, exciting attacking players such as Marie Antoinette-Katoto and Sandy Baltimore. But it is the worst kept secret in the women’s game that manager Corinne Diacre has had an acrimonious relationship with several of her star players.

Diacre made headlines in 2014 when she became the first woman to coach a men’s professional side in France after taking over Ligue 2 side Clermont Foot. In 2017, she left to join the women’s national team following that summer’s Euros. Immediately, she stripped the then four-time Champions League winner Renard of the captaincy, claiming the defender did not play as well for France as she did for her club team, Lyon. Renard remained in the squad but the armband was instead given to Amandine Henry.

Ahead of the 2019 World Cup, which France hosted, Diacre left Katoto out of her squad despite the forward being the top scorer in France with 22 goals that year. Diacre’s goal was to reach the final of the tournament but her side were knocked out in the quarter-finals by the United States, the eventual winners.

The fall-out from their exit started with Diacre criticising striker Eugenie Le Sommer, France’s all-time leading goalscorer, during a television interview. Diacre complained that Le Sommer had not followed her tactics in the game and had strayed out of position. At this point, several players started to speak out against their manager.

Gaetane Thiney accused her of having outdated tactics. She was promptly dropped. Long-serving goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi decided to ‘indefinitely retire’ from the national team. In an interview with Lyon TV, she said: ‘Winning a title with this coach seems impossible to me. We play in a very, very negative environment. I don't see myself winning anything with this manager, and a lot of players think so too but don't say it.’

Bouhaddi has since insisted she will not play for France while Diacre remains manager. Further controversy arose when Henry was left out of the squad for Euro qualifiers in October 2020, with Diacre claiming she was not at the required level after recovering from an injury.

A month later, Henry spoke out about what had unfolded in the French camp at the 2019 World Cup. ‘I saw players crying in their rooms,’ Henry said. ‘I personally cried in my room sometimes. I wanted to enjoy the World Cup, but in the end, it was total chaos.’ In September 2021, Diacre handed the captain’s armband back to Renard.

This was reported on before the Euros, where they were eliminated by Germany 2-1 in the semis.

The FFF have backed Diacre at every turn throughout all of the above. That's an extremely telling position from the players' perspective. And now they face the task of competing in the World Cup without their leader and most experienced player, coached by someone they appear to revile. This all sounds a bit familiar.

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Post by McLewis Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:52 pm

I'll probably do something on favorites and dark horses soon now that the She Believes Cup and Arnold Clark Cups have wrapped up.

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Post by McLewis Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:05 pm

It looks like France's star forward Marie-Antoinette Katoto, fresh off an ACL tear, is also choosing not to play for Diacre:



Star winger Kadidiatou Diani is also confirming she won't play for Diacre as well. This is a full on rebellion now:



I'm in awe of these players honestly. This is really powerful stuff.

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Post by BarrileteCosmico Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:01 pm

France saved all the world cup drama for the women's team this time around
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Post by McLewis Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:25 am



They were almost there to making the right decision. The FFF are a joke.

Meanwhile, in Canada.....



This took far too long from Canada Soccer, but I don't know anything about Crooks or Brown and what role they played over the last year or so.

What I do know is Canada Soccer haven't paid their women's team, Gold Medal winners at the latest Olympics, for over a year and then threatened to sue them in order to force them to compete in the She Believes Cup when they indicated they were going to go on strike.

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Post by McLewis Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:49 pm

Excellent ranking of the Top 9 nations:



If you don't follow women's football, there will be some surprises in these rankings.

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Post by McLewis Wed Mar 08, 2023 6:54 pm

It looks like the FFF have finally come to their senses:



No word on who will replace her, but Herve Renard looks a likely candidate as does PSG Women's coach Gerard Prechour.




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