The top tournament in women’s soccer

The world will be watching as the best teams go for global glory.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup will kick off in Australia and New Zealand this summer, with matches being played from July 20 to August 20. How it started The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the global governing body for soccer, organized the first Men’s World Cup in Uruguay in 1930, but it would be decades before the organization held an international championship for women. A women’s World Cup not affiliated with FIFA was held in Italy in 1970. At a FIFA meeting in 1986, a Norwegian soccer player, Ellen Wille, criticized the organization for not supporting the women’s game. A tournament was held in 1988 to test the popularity of a women’s cup, and it was a success. The first official FIFA Women’s World Cup was held in 1991…

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