FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023

[udidrone]

Finally, Spain won the Women's World Cup by defeating England in the final match of the 2023 Women's World Cup. Spain beat England by one goal in a thrilling match. The two teams fought hard and Spain won the match 1-0. When Spain went ahead with Carmona's goal in the 29th minute of the game, England could not repay that goal in any way. England had a chance to take the lead in the first 15 minutes but unfortunately England's shot deflected off the goal post, denying England the opportunity to score. After that, England could not create much opportunity against Spain. Spain's goal difference to England could have been 2-0 as the referee awarded a penalty for handing an England player inside the D box but the England goalkeeper made a brilliant save. No other team was able to score after that, resulting in Spain 2023 World Cup champions.

Well finally we have a winner here after going through a long struggle overall Spain really dominates even though England can follow their play style unfortunately the Spain's defense is strong enough to hold all the attacks. This is the first time Spain champion who was previously not considered to have a chance to win it while England is a finalist in the semi -finals in the previous tournament in 2019 that's why England is a little favored in the final even though in the end they lost.

[joker_josue]

Credit: Reuters

Congratulations Spain, for this achievement of the Women's Football World Cup.

The English, despite having had a good World Cup, had some instability throughout the tournament. Spain, in turn, remained consistent throughout the World Cup and was more efficient in the final. They weren't considered favorites, but throughout the World Cup, with the main teams leaving, Spain became a team with the potential to win, which happened.

[nullama]

~snip~
Congratulations Spain, for this achievement of the Women's Football World Cup.

The English, despite having had a good World Cup, had some instability throughout the tournament. Spain, in turn, remained consistent throughout the World Cup and was more efficient in the final. They weren't considered favorites, but throughout the World Cup, with the main teams leaving, Spain became a team with the potential to win, which happened.

For the first time in history Spain has won the Women's World Cup. It's a historic moment.

I think England was the current European champion, so at least they have that going on for them.

FIFA president mentioned that this has been the most successful WWC, and I agree. This has been by far the most popular one in their 3 decades of history.

As a comparison, the men's tournament is about to turn one century old.

By the way, anyone else noticed the trophy?, not a fan to be honest... nothing compared to the world cup trophy.

[STT]

Probably best result for the good of the game still developing that England doesn't win this time.   Has to be a chance any team at all can win it in potential, I feel sorry for the US team coach not sure its entirely their fault and enough reason that they should resign but no doubt it alleviates pressure from the team and they move forward for the next cycle.

noticed the trophy?

Probably looks alot more bling in person but yea the shape overall I dont especially like.    Hope its not forever, they can revise it

[shogun47]

~snip~
Congratulations Spain, for this achievement of the Women's Football World Cup.

The English, despite having had a good World Cup, had some instability throughout the tournament. Spain, in turn, remained consistent throughout the World Cup and was more efficient in the final. They weren't considered favorites, but throughout the World Cup, with the main teams leaving, Spain became a team with the potential to win, which happened.

For the first time in history Spain has won the Women's World Cup. It's a historic moment.

I think England was the current European champion, so at least they have that going on for them.

FIFA president mentioned that this has been the most successful WWC, and I agree. This has been by far the most popular one in their 3 decades of history.

As a comparison, the men's tournament is about to turn one century old.

By the way, anyone else noticed the trophy?, not a fan to be honest... nothing compared to the world cup trophy.

Women's soccer is definitely on the rise in terms of popularity and it is really no surprise that viewership numbers are increasing most of the time.

The dominance of the Spanish team reminds me of the good old times the Spanish men had a bit more than a decade ago. They played well in all regards. But it is surprising that the Spanish women have had so less success in the last decades. The round of 167 was the best they could achieve before this title.

[Slow death]

Congratulations to Spain for winning the World Cup, on the news channels in Portuguese that I could see and it left me very shocked and I thought it was very wrong and this kind of thing should not happen in sport, I mean this:

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/08/20/MPqyq.png

 

Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation kissed the mouth of the Spanish player named Jenni Hermoso, honestly this is a very reprehensible attitude, if he does this with these players he faces the cameras so what is he doing with these players without being filmed can be scary, it's called sexual harassment and the laws are tough about it especially in sport when it involves high-ranking officials harassing women in sport. this girl probably has a boyfriend or husband or kids and how must the husband or girlfriend feel seeing these kinds of things? no doubt they must be irritated by the behavior of the president of the Spanish Football Federation

I for sure share the same opinion with you, but however, this can only be considered sexual harassment if the lady herself wasn't in support of the act, that is, if the president had forced his mouth into her own mouth, which I think is not the outplay here, judging from the way the lady in the picture is seen holding the president, and it doesn't matter whether she has a husband or boyfriend, that we cant really be sure of, but the one important factor here is she herself, what does she think or how does she feel about the approach? was she comfortable kissing the president and allowed it on her own will? or does she feel forced or compelled to do it out of her will?, that will tell if its a sexual harassment or not..

And lets not forget that sometimes, over excitements can push or drive us to doing a lot of awkward things, this also can possibly be the cause of the outplay in the picture.

Anyways, a big congratulations for the Spain women for winning the 2023 FIFA women's world cup.

well, this event is being widely talked about in the news and she already commented on it and said that she didn't like that attitude and nobody would be happy with that kind of attitudes because those are professional athletes like men and they should be treated with the same respect as I give to men

Hermoso, who is Spain's all-time record scorer, was asked about the incident during an Instagram live video following the trophy ceremony and said "I did not enjoy it".

source:https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12024/12944275/spanish-fa-president-pictured-kissing-jennifer-hermoso-on-world-cup-final-trophy-podium

if he is not punished then he will be doing this constantly and may even be blackmailing female players to sleep with him, this justification of his that it was a moment of emotion, this is meaningless, I am a man and I will not kiss another man under any circumstances , not even that I was emotional, that doesn't make any sense, because there were many other women in the field and many other men and children, why weren't they all emotional to the point of starting to kiss? the answer is simple: because they have education and responsibility that in that place and circumstances it is not appropriate for them to do that and in his case being a person who occupies a high position with great power

so it can easily be understood that he committed two or more crimes, one of the crimes and with evidence was the crime of sexual abuse and the other for abuse of office and without contracting the crime of offending the player's image because the kiss was in a field football with many people and live broadcast around the world, there is also a crime against the player's honor, in short, and a lot of illegal things that he committed in just one act. in my opinion he should have come to apologize and resign from office because of a bad example, but from what I read he just said this:

In comments given to AFP by the Spanish federation, Hermoso later said: "It was a totally spontaneous mutual gesture because of the immense joy that winning a World Cup brings.

"The president and I have a great relationship, his behaviour with all of us has been outstanding and it was a natural gesture of affection and gratitude."

this is the kind of comment from a mentally ill person, he doesn't seem to show any kind of regret or doesn't see his attitude as being a very wrong attitude and a bad example for all soccer in spain, on the contrary he is seeing it as something normal. but this is characteristic of mentally ill people who live abusing women for being in high positions. I hope the player sues him and government and federation members remove him from that position. When the world cup started, people said that women play well and like men, I didn't see that, in my opinion they were far below men's level when compared in terms of quality. I always thought that female athletes should be treated like men, training should be heavy like men's, that's why I see this behavior as something reprehensible

-snip-

Read it through the local media in my country, and both of them gave quite different clarifications, Hermoso asked not to need to be extended but she should have been more assertive in expressing her feelings whether she likes it or not because this is not good for the development of women's sports, meanwhile, Luis Rubiales responded more jokingly, and it's not uncommon when there are scandals but it could be just excessive emotions which eventually lead to scandals, but if you often watch matches in this women's football tournament then you will find some treatment that is inappropriate when the official team hugs one of their players but not do it to this player.
Many have asked for what happened to these two men to be investigated.
It seems that Spain's victory was tarnished a bit because of the excessive behavior of the president of the Spanish football federation and it seems that there will always be things to tarnish the celebrations because they cannot control themselves.

I keep asking myself if he would do that if it was the main men's team, can you imagine if he was going to do that with Sergio Ramos? no doubt he would get punched in the face

[Sim_card]

~snip~
Congratulations Spain, for this achievement of the Women's Football World Cup.

The English, despite having had a good World Cup, had some instability throughout the tournament. Spain, in turn, remained consistent throughout the World Cup and was more efficient in the final. They weren't considered favorites, but throughout the World Cup, with the main teams leaving, Spain became a team with the potential to win, which happened.

For the first time in history Spain has won the Women's World Cup. It's a historic moment.

I think England was the current European champion, so at least they have that going on for them.

FIFA president mentioned that this has been the most successful WWC, and I agree. This has been by far the most popular one in their 3 decades of history.

As a comparison, the men's tournament is about to turn one century old.

By the way, anyone else noticed the trophy?, not a fan to be honest... nothing compared to the world cup trophy.

It is always good to see new country winning the world cup for the first time as it will be boring if same old country comes and win it. History has been made by the women football players of Spain as this is the first time that Spain will win the WWC. They deserve the victory because they have been consistent in their matches and determined without losing focus on how to achieve this great success. I was actually thinking that it was England who will win the cup but I was wrong as I judged from my own mindset. Congratulations to the Spain women football team on their achievement.

[rdluffy]

... thankgoodness i had a change of mind and decided not to bet on the finals, it would had been more painful watching them lose and also  knowing my stake is at risk....

Hehe, congratulations, in some situations where there is a lot of doubt, it may be better not to bet and just watch the game.
Bet on results that you are more confident about

Not sure if England played badly in this final or indeed the opponent was too strong 

Both things 
Spain really were a team that played at a high level, they played well (even if I don't approve the way they played to gain time in the final 45 minutes), but England couldn't show the soccer that they showed in other matches and that made them win the Euros and get to the world cup final.
They only had 3 shots on goal out of a total of 8 shots.
That's not much for a team that made it to the final, unfortunately they couldn't keep it up
But 2nd place is a great achievement 


Now I ask the question: What was the biggest disappointment in your opinion?

The United States?
New Zealand, Brazil, Canada?

For me it was Brazil, who didn't even make it past the group stage, it was quite frustrating not to even reach the round of 16

[Fuso.hp]

Credit: Reuters

Congratulations Spain, for this achievement of the Women's Football World Cup.

The English, despite having had a good World Cup, had some instability throughout the tournament. Spain, in turn, remained consistent throughout the World Cup and was more efficient in the final. They weren't considered favorites, but throughout the World Cup, with the main teams leaving, Spain became a team with the potential to win, which happened.

When Spain were thrashed 4-0 by Japan in the group stage match, we didn't think for once that this team would win a World Cup tournament for the first time. Spain returned to the tournament with a fresh start after being defeated by Japan 4-0 in the group stage. Barring the result of this one match against Japan, Spain were an unstoppable team for the rest of the tournament. When Spain defeated Sweden in the first semi-final match to confirm the final, it seemed that maybe for the first time Spain is going to win the Women's World Cup because Spain's performance against Sweden was really great. 
Spain performed much better than England in the final match against England due to which they were able to defeat England in the final match.

[noormcs5]

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Read it through the local media in my country, and both of them gave quite different clarifications, Hermoso asked not to need to be extended but she should have been more assertive in expressing her feelings whether she likes it or not because this is not good for the development of women's sports, meanwhile, Luis Rubiales responded more jokingly, and it's not uncommon when there are scandals but it could be just excessive emotions which eventually lead to scandals, but if you often watch matches in this women's football tournament then you will find some treatment that is inappropriate when the official team hugs one of their players but not do it to this player.
Many have asked for what happened to these two men to be investigated.
It seems that Spain's victory was tarnished a bit because of the excessive behavior of the president of the Spanish football federation and it seems that there will always be things to tarnish the celebrations because they cannot control themselves.

Don't know why everyone is talking about the behaviour of the president of the Spanish football more than the victory of the Spanish team. I see this thing being discussed more on the social media and less people are talking about the actual win that the Spanish girls achieved.

I do not think this is so important that we discuss it. Also, why don't we check the reaction of the Spanish girl after kissing? She was equally involved in it and also when the kiss and hug was over, the Spanish girl did not show any embarrassment or something like that.

We should rather talk about the player's game performances and discuss about the world cup heroes and not indulge too much in their personal life.

[Marykeller]

~snip~
Congratulations Spain, for this achievement of the Women's Football World Cup.

The English, despite having had a good World Cup, had some instability throughout the tournament. Spain, in turn, remained consistent throughout the World Cup and was more efficient in the final. They weren't considered favorites, but throughout the World Cup, with the main teams leaving, Spain became a team with the potential to win, which happened.

For the first time in history Spain has won the Women's World Cup. It's a historic moment..

A historical moment that Spain made in Sydney to lift the Women's World Cup for the first time. The joy will be overwhelming for them cos they never expected to be the winner of the Women's World Cup after losing one of their matches to Japan(4-0). England was everyone's favorite to lift the WWC but as football match results are, you can't predict who wins a match after 90mins of the match has been played.
Congratulations to Spain for making us believe  once again that any team can win a match despite the team they are playing against if they make up their mind to

[LTU_btc]

Soon after final it was announced that father of Golden goal author Olga Carmona passed away. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66566564
As she posted on Twitter, it's the best and worst day in her life. It's difficult to imagine her emotions after what she experienced in one day.

Now I ask the question: What was the biggest disappointment in your opinion?

The United States?
New Zealand, Brazil, Canada?

For me it was Brazil, who didn't even make it past the group stage, it was quite frustrating not to even reach the round of 16

Good question. New Zealand - no way, there was no big expectations about them and that they won against Norway what is huge achievement.
Probably Brazil who got eliminated after group stage already and their group wasn't really strong. USA is disappointment, but after all they got eliminated by another strong team.

[wheelz1200]

Soon after final it was announced that father of Golden goal author Olga Carmona passed away. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66566564
As she posted on Twitter, it's the best and worst day in her life. It's difficult to imagine her emotions after what she experienced in one day.

Now I ask the question: What was the biggest disappointment in your opinion?

The United States?
New Zealand, Brazil, Canada?

For me it was Brazil, who didn't even make it past the group stage, it was quite frustrating not to even reach the round of 16

Good question. New Zealand - no way, there was no big expectations about them and that they won against Norway what is huge achievement.
Probably Brazil who got eliminated after group stage already and their group wasn't really strong. USA is disappointment, but after all they got eliminated by another strong team.

By far the US, they barely escaped group play and on the heels of 2 straight world cup titles not winning a single game in the elimination round was certainly disappointing.  I think that was also the earliest they've ever been booted from the tournament as well. 

[nelson4lov]

Now I ask the question: What was the biggest disappointment in your opinion?

The United States?
New Zealand, Brazil, Canada?

For me it was Brazil, who didn't even make it past the group stage, it was quite frustrating not to even reach the round of 16

Definitely France for me. They were one of the best teams in the tournament and should have eliminated Australia without difficulty but failing to do so cost them their place in the semi finals. Same Australia that couldn't win England or Sweden. And of course, Brazil. Great team and started well but their WWC journey was cut short.

And Finally, Nigeria. They had the chance to win England and blew it away by not closing the game in the closing stages when England went 1 woman down.

[joker_josue]

Now I ask the question: What was the biggest disappointment in your opinion?

The United States?
New Zealand, Brazil, Canada?

For me it was the USA. The world champion team had a very haughty posture, and that was noticeable on the field. Each game that passed, they showed less, convinced that they would win the games.

And that can be clearly seen in the game against Portugal, where they did just enough to draw. Noting that they were convinced they were going to win. It is true that they ended up drawing. But with minutes to go, they could have nearly lost. They didn't lose in that game, they lost in the next game.

Don't know why everyone is talking about the behaviour of the president of the Spanish football more than the victory of the Spanish team. I see this thing being discussed more on the social media and less people are talking about the actual win that the Spanish girls achieved.

I do not think this is so important that we discuss it. Also, why don't we check the reaction of the Spanish girl after kissing? She was equally involved in it and also when the kiss and hug was over, the Spanish girl did not show any embarrassment or something like that.

I don't want to get into issues of harassment, sexism or anything else here.

The only thing I can say is that the attitude was not adequate for the situation. For me, it was only validated if they came to say they had the romantic affair. And since that hasn't happened so far, it's clear proof that it was something inappropriate.

The player, that same night, made it clear that she didn't like it, saying later "but what could I do?"
They can say what they want, it was not appropriate, even if they had a romantic affair, because that is an official event and people must behave appropriately to the situation they are experiencing. And he is a representative of a country, he must have a dignified and respectful attitude. Which he clearly didn't have.

[nullama]

~snip~
Women's soccer is definitely on the rise in terms of popularity and it is really no surprise that viewership numbers are increasing most of the time.

The dominance of the Spanish team reminds me of the good old times the Spanish men had a bit more than a decade ago. They played well in all regards. But it is surprising that the Spanish women have had so less success in the last decades. The round of 167 was the best they could achieve before this title.

WWC2023 was probably the most viewed ever in their history.

I think it's mostly due to people putting a lot of money in marketing, because I think they want to sell this tournament for more money.

In terms of actual football quality, it doesn't really compare with the World Cup.

Most of the people that I've spoken to in real life were kinda just watching it because it was "popular", basically the TV and news, etc, have been pushing it. Almost no one was watching the game for the actual football, it was mostly in support of women.

[Stable090]

It is always good to see new country winning the world cup for the first time as it will be boring if same old country comes and win it. History has been made by the women football players of Spain as this is the first time that Spain will win the WWC. They deserve the victory because they have been consistent in their matches and determined without losing focus on how to achieve this great success. I was actually thinking that it was England who will win the cup but I was wrong as I judged from my own mindset. Congratulations to the Spain women football team on their achievement.

Seriously, it’s nice seeing another country win the World Cup, Spain already created a record. If the same country keeps on winning it, then it’s going to get boring, but at least we now see a new club winning it, and I am sure the next World Cup will also be different because we might end up seeing a different country that hasn’t won the World Cup before winning it. Spain performed very well in the World Cup, and they really deserve the cup. Most people think England is going to win the cup, but they lost to Spain with just a goal difference. The two clubs played well in the match, but Spain won the match with a goal difference, which makes them the winner of the cup.

[joker_josue]

In terms of actual football quality, it doesn't really compare with the World Cup.

But you can't compare!
You can't compare the Men's World Cup, which is almost 100 years old, with the Women's World Cup, which is only about 30 years old.

First you have to attract attention, so that more players can appear and in turn more money, so that women's football can increase its quality. And that takes years, because football careers are short and you need a lot of players to find really great talent.

[Sithara007]

In terms of actual football quality, it doesn't really compare with the World Cup.

But you can't compare!
You can't compare the Men's World Cup, which is almost 100 years old, with the Women's World Cup, which is only about 30 years old.

First you have to attract attention, so that more players can appear and in turn more money, so that women's football can increase its quality. And that takes years, because football careers are short and you need a lot of players to find really great talent.

Not an apple to apple comparison. Men's football is the most popular sport on the globe at this point (and that too by a distance). Women's football is gaining popularity, but viewership is only a fraction of that of men's game. Men's football stars are 10x or 20x more popular than the most valuable players in women's football. But that is how sport works. Biological differences mean that women doesn't have the same flexibility and agility as men. As a result, they fare poorly in team sports such as football, rugby, cricket and baseball.

[romero121]

In terms of actual football quality, it doesn't really compare with the World Cup.

But you can't compare!
You can't compare the Men's World Cup, which is almost 100 years old, with the Women's World Cup, which is only about 30 years old.

First you have to attract attention, so that more players can appear and in turn more money, so that women's football can increase its quality. And that takes years, because football careers are short and you need a lot of players to find really great talent.

Women's World Cup have come to an end. Spain with the FIFA Women's World Cup win have made itself the second country to win both Men and Women FIFA World Cup. This had been the most popular Women's Football World Cup organised. Two million tickets sold throughout the tournament is a record. It is not football, in every sports there is inequality among the Men and Women teams. The Women's Football leagues should be given importance through which we can expect the increase in the quality of the players and the team.