Women’s World Cup 2023 team-by-team all you need to know guide
In March, a derby between Benfica and Sporting was watched by 27,211 people in Estádio da Luz, shattering the record for a women’s game in Portugal. It would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. It’s another milestone in the growth of women’s football, fuelled by the investment of the Portuguese FA and joined by some of the big clubs, such as Sporting, Benfica and Braga.
The Americans were compelled to retool their roster after a lacklustre bronze-medal finish with a veteran-heavy squad at the Tokyo Olympics, where their once-swashbuckling attack struggled for ideas in the final third despite ample time on the ball, but it’s anything but a finished product as their three-peat bid draws near.
Andonovski wound up choosing 14 first-time World Cup players, up from 11 debutantes in 2019. Questions over the fitness of mainstays Rose Lavelle, Julie Ertz and Megan Rapinoe are concerning enough, but the recent glut of definitive injuries has ensured the newcomers will be pressed into action.
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