{"id":4570,"date":"2023-07-10T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T09:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T09:04:36","slug":"will-the-lionesses-roar-at-the-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/will-the-lionesses-roar-at-the-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Lionesses Roar at the Women\u2019s World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #618899;\">An incredible summer of sport is about to get even better when the Women\u2019s World Cup kicks off next week (20 July).<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Australia and New Zealand are hosting the tournament, which promises to build on all the excitement and drama of last year\u2019s Women\u2019s Euros, where the Lionesses prevailed.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s football in the UK received an incredible boost last July when Leah Williamson led England to victory against Germany at Wembley in front of 87,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p>So, can the Lionesses go one step further and make history down under by winning the Women\u2019s World Cup?<\/p>\n<p>It certainly won\u2019t be easy with the bookies currently favouring the US \u2013 the defending champions \u2013 who have taken the title four times since the tournament\u2019s inception in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Canada (Olympic champions), Germany (who have won twice) and one-time winners Japan and Norway. And don\u2019t discount Australia, playing on home turf and captained by Sam Kerr, the Chelsea star ranked by FIFA as the number one female player in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lionesses cannot be underestimated. Many of the big guns who led them to that thrilling Euros victory last year, including Lucy Bronze, Keira Walsh and Georgia Stanway, are returning, as is their star coach Sarina Wiegman (FIFA Women\u2019s Coach for 2022).<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #bda762;\">Here\u2019s a rundown of what football fans need to know about the event.<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This year\u2019s Women\u2019s World Cup will be the biggest ever with 32 teams playing. The Philippines, Morocco, Vietnam, Ireland and Zambia will all compete in the tournament for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>England\u2019s first match is against Haiti in Brisbane on Saturday, 22 July. Their other group-stage matches are against Denmark (Friday, 28 July) and China (Tuesday, 1 August).<\/li>\n<li>The final is at Stadium Australia in Sydney on 20 August (capacity: 83,500).<\/li>\n<li>FIFA says it\u2019s on course to sell 1.5 million tickets in total for this year\u2019s tournament (yes, that\u2019s a record).<\/li>\n<li>This year, Brazil\u2019s Marta, aged 37, will compete in her sixth Women\u2019s World Cup. As incredible as this achievement is, it still puts her behind her countrywoman Miraildes Maciel Mota, aka \u2018Formiga\u2019. She played at seven World Cups and seven Olympics and is Brazil\u2019s most-capped footballer. In case you\u2019re wondering, Formiga means \u2018ant\u2019 in Portuguese and refers to the footballer\u2019s unselfish football style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #618899;\"><strong>Will you be tuning in to the Women\u2019s World Cup this year? If so, tell us who your favourite Lioness is and where you\u2019ll be watching on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CraneandCo1\/?locale=en_GB\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible summer of sport is about to get even better when the Women\u2019s World Cup kicks off next week (20 July). Australia and New Zealand are hosting the tournament, which promises to build on all the excitement and drama of last year\u2019s Women\u2019s Euros, where the Lionesses prevailed. Women\u2019s football in the UK received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-home-advice-and-guidance","tag-jerry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}