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.
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.
The United States enter the World Cup with the deepest team in the world and plenty of star power. But there are questions in defense and midfield that leave the Yanks vulnerable. John Halloran explores the questions that linger after the Send-Off Series.