Chelsea Women manager Emma Hayes will leave the Women’s Super League club at the end of the 2023-24 season to take over the U.S. women’s national team, according to sources briefed on the hiring process. The sources were granted anonymity because they were not authorised to publicly discuss the decision. Chelsea announced Hayes’ departure earlier … Read more
If I were typing this story last month, I’d be doing so from a cozy studio hotel off Wentworth Avenue in the Surry Hills neighborhood of Sydney, Australia. I’d probably be writing in between reporting — maybe about Casey Phair, the youngest player ever to play in a FIFA World Cup, or the Argentina women’s … Read more
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Spain’s World Cup hero Olga Carmona has been left angry by the team’s victory being overshadowed by the controversy surrounding Luis Rubiales. The former president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF) kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips as the players were being handed winners’ medals following their 1-0 win against England in the final. The … Read more
Less than 24 hours after Spanish media reported that Luis Rubiales was to step down, the Spanish Football Federation president has come out fighting, saying he refuses to leave. The president of the Spanish Football Federation refused to resign on Friday despite an uproar for kissing a player on the lips without her consent after … Read more
England and Spain will meet in the 2023 Women’s World Cup final. Goals from Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo fired England into their first World Cup final since 1966 with Sam Kerr’s reply not enough for Australia, who bow out of their home tournament. Toone gave England the lead in the first half … Read more
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Spoiler alert. Hervé Renard’s French lineup knows what the atmosphere and the tension is like playing a Women’s World Cup quarterfinal on home soil, and is projecting that onto Australia’s Matildas. The French hosted the 2019 tournament and lost in the quarterfinals to the U.S. team, which went on to successfully … Read more
Lauren James and England face an anxious wait over whether the red card she received against Nigeria will end her World Cup dream. James sent off in England’s win over Nigeria FIFA yet to decide length of her ban Lionesses face Colombia in quarter-finals WHAT HAPPENED? Chelsea star James was sent off in the 87th … Read more
England are into the last-16 of the Women’s World Cup after breathing life into their tournament challenge with a huge 6-1 win over China. The Lionesses had hardly lit proceedings alight during their first two games but were back amongst the goals last time out as they look to follow up their Euro 2022 success … Read more
By the numbers, this Women’s World Cup has been every bit as dramatic as headlines about Morocco’s triumphs and Brazil’s heartbreak would have you believe — and then some. In the 48 contests of the now-concluded group stage, nine underdogs on betting lines won outright, and another 10 fought favorites to draws. And many of … Read more
Randy Waldrum was perhaps the only person in the room who was not surprised by what had just happened. As tens of thousands of shell-shocked Matildas fans filtered out of Lang Park in Brisbane, the Nigerian head coach walked casually into the post-game media conference, looked around at the wide-eyed journalists clamouring for answers, and took a … Read more