From June 6 to July 5 2015, 24 teams from around the world will compete in the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup in venues across Canada, including Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton,
From June 6 to July 5 2015, 24 teams from around the world will compete in the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup in venues across Canada, including Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton, with the final taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia. This guide provides an insightful and in-depth preview of women's soccer's biggest and greatest tournament.
Women's soccer is of growing interest to Canadians after the team's strong showing in the London Olympics and the routinely excellent performance of star players like Christine Sinclair. How has the team performed in the lead up to the world cup? What have been some of its successes and failures? How does Team Canada stack up against the other teams? All these questions, and many more, will be answered in the official book of the 2015 tournament.
This guidebook includes a review of the qualifying campaign; information on each of the tournament's six venues; an in—depth analysis of all 24 participating teams and their star players; and a retrospective look at the first six FIFA Women's World Cups. In short, the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 is essential reading for every fan of women's soccer.
The book includes:
- Tournament background
- The Road to Canada
- The Venues
- The Teams
- History of the FIFA Women's World Cup
- FIFA Women's World Cup Quiz
- Tournament fill-in chart
The book also gives a preliminary look at most of the same teams that will be competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is an association governed by Swiss law founded in 1904 and based in Zurich. It has 209 member associations and its goal, enshrined in its Statutes, is the constant improvement of football.
FIFA promotes the development of women's football and pledges to support women's football financially and to give women players, coaches, referees and officials the opportunity to become actively involved in football. FIFA is helping to popularise the game by increasing public awareness and conducting information campaigns as well as overcoming social and cultural obstacles for women with the ultimate aim of improving women's standing in society.
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Excerpt:
International soccer caps are not found in the bottom of your favorite breakfast cereal, nor are they given when you fill your tank at a gas station. You have to be good, but Christine Sinclair is not good; she is great. The best Canadian soccer player of all-time. In fact one of the world's finest. The winner of more than 200 international caps and scorer of 150 goals, her figures outstrip any man's record and are surpassed by only a tiny handful of her peers.
The darling of Canadian women's soccer, Sinclair has been scoring goals for her country since making her debut in March 2000, aged only 16. And little has slowed her in 15 years at the top of women's soccer.
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