In Grenoble, a city famous for defensive fortifications, Canada emerged as a team that has found a defensive identity- and with it- a chance to win a World Cup.
If France’s golden generation finally make an international breakthrough this summer, you can bet immaculate midfielder and captain Amandine Henry will have led the way.
Neil Blackmon on Henry, and why this time, it may be different for France.
Caitlin Murray, the author of the wonderful new book “The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who changed Soccer”, joins us for a discussion of the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the USWNT.
Loaded with star power and more competitive than ever, this Women’s World Cup promises to be one of the greatest World Cups ever played. In spite of that, or perhaps because of it, the battles off the field to remedy the pay and working conditions inequities that plague women’s soccer are fiercer than ever.
We preview the tournament, which begins Friday in Paris.