2023 Women’s World Cup – The Americans seek a pass three times in Australia and New Zealand

A double defending champion, Team USA is a favorite in this ninth edition. Led by stars Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Julie Ertz, Rose Lavelle, and Christy Moyes, the Americans have always been semi-finalists and have claimed four titles (1991, 1999, 2015, and 2019). No team, men or women, has ever won three consecutive FIFA World Cups. Thirty-one other teams intend to get in the way of Cousins ​​Sam, who occupy the first place in the FIFA rankings. Among them, European teams seem to be the most capable of achieving this. Sweden (FIFA 2), the third in 2019 and the semi-finalist of Euro 2022, France (FIFA 3), which is recovering from a crisis about its management and is managed today by Hervé Renard, Germany (FIFA 4), the Netherlands (FIFA 5), the finalist four years ago years, Spain (FIFA 7) or England (FIFA 8), European champions. Canada (FIFA 6), Brazil (FIFA 9) and even Australia (FIFA 12) are the other teams that can have real ambitions. The United States was placed in Group E along with the Vietnamese, Dutch and Portuguese. They eliminated the Red Flames, who were the quarter-finalists of the last European Nations Cup, and who had never played a World Cup, in the first round of the European Qualifiers (2-1). The 32 teams are divided into eight groups of four. The top two will advance to the round of 16 contested from August 5-8. The quarter-finals will be held on August 11 and 12, before the semi-finals on August 15 and 16 and the final on August 20. Favorite