Women’s world cup bid

The United States and Mexico have withdrawn their joint bid to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup and will instead focus on bidding for the tournament in 2031. It comes less than three weeks before the hosts were to be chosen, at a Fifa congress in Bangkok on 17 May. The remaining bids are from Brazil and a joint one from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The US Soccer and Mexican Football Federations said their 2031 bid will call for equal investment as the men’s tournament in a “historic first”. “The revised bid will allow US Soccer to build on…