2023 Women’s world cup

Messi To Inspire Argentina At 2023 Women’s World Cup

Messi To Inspire Argentina At 2023 Women’s World Cup

“To be honest, I cried. I cried a lot,” says Vanina Correa, who is about to captain Argentina in New Zealand at the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup. The veteran goalkeeper, who was in the squad for the 2003 edition in the United States, is talking about her emotions when the national men’s team were crowned world champions last December. An estimated five million people poured on to the streets of Buenos Aires to give Lionel Messi and his team-mates a hero’s welcome home after defeating France on penalties in the final in Qatar. Seven months on from those incredible scenes in…
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Mukansanga Headlines Africa’s Referees For 2023 Women’s World Cup

Mukansanga Headlines Africa’s Referees For 2023 Women’s World Cup

Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga will lead the pack of African referees selected for this year’s 2023 Women’s World Cup  to be staged in Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20. The list of match officials selected for the competition as released by football's world governing body, FIFA, has 33 referees, 55 assistant referees and 19 Video Match Officials (VMOs), was announced by the FIFA Referees Committee on Monday. For the first time in the history of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, six of the VMOs are females. Mukansanga, who made history as the first African female to be…
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