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The competition starts in Paris in a week and after years of careful development and the increase in media coverage, women's football is expected to be at the rendezvous. definitive jump in the big moment.
"I think there's a bigger picture … this summer", manager from England Phil Neville said at the unveiling of his team.
"I think this World Cup is a tipping point for the women's match where I think it's just going to boom. "
the the signs are encouraging on the field and outside.
France will host the tournament on June 7 when it faces South Korea at the Parc des Princes in the capital, and will end July 7 with the final at the Stade Groupama in Lyon, which is just at the end. 69,000.
However, when France hosted the Men's World Cup and euros, the finals were held at the Stade de France with a capacity of 80,000 people, and a lot of this summer's matches take place in stadiums with a capacity of 25,000 or less.
"We have not always chosen large fields because we did not want empty stadiums"French Football Federation President Noel Le Graet told AFP.
"We had the Women's World Cup in 2015 … At first, possible the host cities were not really jostling each other to present oneself.
"I was a little afraid of the Parc des Princes, but the opening game sold in five minutes. "
– Out of the blue –
the ticket request surprised the hosts.
"We have not seen it coming," said Erwan Le Prevost, head of the local organizing committee.
Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of Lyon, who will host the semi-finals and the final told AFP that "it was a play at the time we bid on the games ".
The excitement is at its height for the eighth official Women's World Cup partly because the pool of competitive teams is deeper.
"We are in a virtuous circle with an audience that will come to watch," said Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Lyon, which will host the semi-finals and the final.
the The United States are the queens of the game after winning the World Cup three times and the Olympics four times, then Germany follows closely with two world cups and eight huge European championships. Japan and Norway have both won the World Cup once.
However, the power of Americans and Germans is about to be questioned by some of the others powers of traditional football, who for a long time did not take female football seriously, are catch up.
England and France, ranked third and fourth in the world, arrives with real hopes to win the whole thing. Spain, the Netherlands and Italy are all in the top 15, with the current European champions in the Netherlands.
International women's football follows a pattern observed by Aulas in the inter-club competitions, in which Lyon beat Barcelona in May to win a fourth consecutive title in the Champions League.
"At the European level, we probably have provoked desire can do the same thing in all major clubs, "he said.
– Battle in progress –
Neville said his former members told him stories that he had a hard time believing on the harshness of things, let's say that there was "no bibs, no balls, no grounds (and) be so badly treated. "
Some World Cup teams continue to face the same problems, even for the strongest nations attitudes do not change fast enough.
the WE team, whose popularity in their native country was the financial engine that drove women's football, arrive entangled in a legal dispute with their federation.
They want to be paid the same as the US men's team, who also remain rans and whose best finish in the World Cup was a third place in 1930.
Winner of the Women's Gold Ball Ada Hegerberg, who scored a hat-trick for Lyon in the final of the Champions League, will also be absent. She is boycott the national team even though Norway pay the same for international men and womenbecause she believes that we must do more improve the way women footballers are treated.
However, at the opening whistle, the players who are in France will be focused on the victory, which promises to be the The most difficult Women's World Cup so far.
"It will be a remarkable World Cup, the level of competition four years after the last one. increased exponentially"said American coach Jill Ellis.
"Different teams are up now and it's going to be a Very open World Cup and we are delighted to go there and attack it. "
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