Sarai Bareman, FIFA's chief women's football officer, said she had less concerns about Australia where over 40,000 are expected for Matildas' World Cup warmup match against France.
Japan is a highly lucrative market for TV rights & women's football has a committed following which burgeoned after the Nadeshiko won the cup in 2011 and reached the final in 2015.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the 9th edition of the Women's World Cup, which starts on 20 July, has sold 1,032,884 tickets, surpassing the previous tournament in France in 2019.
Insults were directed at Renan as he left the pitch at the Ciudad de la Plata stadium in Argentina where Brazil beat Tunisia 4-1 in the tournament’s Round of 16, CBF said.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said broadcasters had offered only $1 million-$10 million for rights, compared to $100 million-$200 million for rights to men's World Cup.
US previously hosted Women's World Cup in 1999 and in 2003. Mexico has not hosted the tournament before. Australia, New Zealand will co-host the 2023 edition.
The team's victory may at first appear as a mere consolation after it couldn't qualify for the Paris Olympics. But it is a massive moment in the new era of Pakistani women’s football.
The removal comes over Indonesia’s failure to honour its commitments to tournament, following outrage among some politicians about Israel's participation.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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