Women’s World Cup-2023: lucky draw for Les Bleues, alongside Jamaica and Brazil

Published on: 10/22/2022 – 15:44 Nine months before the 2023 World Cup, the French women’s football team was placed in group F on Saturday during the draw for the World Cup. Les Bleues thus find themselves alongside Jamaica and Brazil. The tricolor team will therefore establish its base camp in Australia, where it will play all its tournament matches. Group F as easy? Wendie Renard’s France was placed in a very lenient group on Saturday, October 22, in the draw for the 2023 World Cup, with Brazil as their main opponent in Australia. Nine months before the tournament in the southern hemisphere, the horizon cleared during a happy ceremony for Les Bleues during the draw at the Aotea Center in Auckland. “When you are a coach, there is never an easy group”, nuanced the coach Corinne Deacon with AFP. “On paper, you could assume that France and Brazil will finish first and second. I just wish it was in that order.” The semi-finalists of the last Euro meet on July 23 in Sydney against Jamaica. They will then go to Brisbane to face the Seleçao six days later, before returning to Sydney on August 2 to meet a play-off (among Taiwan, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea and Panama) whose identity will be known in February. The team tricolor will therefore establish its base camp in Australia, where it will play all its matches of the tournament. Deacon is “delighted” because “the trip is shorter” from France, “there is less time difference” and, in case first round in New Zealand, “we would have had to come back to Australia, so traveling again would have made logistics a little heavier”, she explained. 𝙏𝙄𝙍𝘼𝙂𝙀 𝘼𝙐 𝙎𝙊𝙍𝙏 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙋𝙀 𝘿𝙐 🌏
𝑮𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑬 𝑭 for the Blues:
🇬🇧 France
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇧🇷 Brazil
❓ Group C play-off winner #FiersdetreBleues pic.twitter.com/hbzLcVf36J— Equipe de France Féminine (@equipedefranceF) October 22, 2022 The distant USA On the way to the final, on August 20 in Sydney, the Bleues are assured of not to cross paths with the United States, double reigning world champions who had broken their title dream in 2019 at home. Megan Rapinoe’s “Team USA” is placed in another part of the table. Getting out of the group stage alive does not seem too complicated an objective for the French women to achieve, especially since the first two places offer a jump seat for the round of 16 of this first Women’s World Cup with two organizing countries, in Oceania and with thirty-two teams. any shock against the United States, the English freshly titled at the European Championship, or even Germany, Spain, Sweden and the two host countries. A bad pick was not to be excluded among the members of the hat 2. But they dodged Canadian Olympic champions Ada Hegerberg’s Norway, 2011 crowned Japan and Vivianne Miedema’s Netherlands. Instead, they fell to Brazil, a team that never got them. beaten. This will awaken the memory of the 2019 World Cup, an unbreathable round of 16 in Le Havre won 2-1 in extra time thanks to a goal from Amandine Henry. Shaw, a known face In hat 3, we had to avoid Pernille Harder’s Denmark and tricolors inherited from Jamaica. The opponent is unknown to Les Bleues, but not his striker Khadija Shaw (Manchester City), who passed through Bordeaux. “We will simply have to wean her off the ball,” commented Deacon. For their part, New Zealand fell on Norway, the Philippines and Switzerland. Australia will meet the Republic of Ireland, Nigeria and especially Canada. In Group E, there will be a repeat of the 2019 final between the United States and the Netherlands. The pool will be completed by Vietnam and a play-off. The ninth Women’s World Cup will be unprecedented in more than one round: the first with thirty-two teams, the first in the southern hemisphere and the first to be co-organized by two countries. After the audience success of the 2019 edition in France, Fifa hopes to transform the test in Oceania. But the body of world governance of football comes up against the reluctance of certain broadcasters who are reluctant to pay television broadcasting rights at their fair value. The “broadcasters offer us 100 times less than what they offer us for the men’s world”, denounced the boss of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, on the sidelines of the draw. The leader deemed these offers “unacceptable”, especially since the television channels “urge us to do more for equality”. With AFP