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In 2019, France will host the third time a World Cup. If in 1938 and 1998, men were honored, the nine French stadiums selected for the occasion this time will be trampled by female calves.
By entrusting Wednesday the organization of the World in France, the executive committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) welcomed the rise of women’s football tricolor. In seven World Cups and in fourteen editions of the European Championship (14 th will take place in 2017 in the Netherlands), the third nation in the FIFA rankings had never received the honors of a great competition. Contacted by Le Monde , the general secretary and No. 2 of the French Football Federation (FFF), in charge of women’s football, Brigitte Henriques, welcomes from the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, this decision:
“It is a great joy for us. This is a historic day for the French women’s sport. We are ready to host a great event and we have proven organizing males Euro 1984, the Global 1998 and soon Euro 2016. This decision will strengthen the craze that France had known at the good run of the Blue in the World 2011. This will sustain the development of women’s football in France. Imagine the joy of a young football player at the idea of playing in a World Cup at home “
new stronghold of female football
compete with South Korea, 18 th nation in the FIFA rankings, France has argued his status as new stronghold of female football. If the ranking of the team of France is still a virgin, the rise is undeniable. In the wake of Olympique Lyonnais, double European champion in 2011 and 2012, the emergence of a competitive women’s section PSG (qualified as men in the quarterfinals of the Champions League), the blue reached the semifinals the last World Cup in 2011 in Germany, as well as the last four Olympic Games in 2012, one of the major competitions of the women’s game.
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Over the past year, the France team, coached by Philippe Bergeroo, beat all the great nations of the female foot: Sweden in February 2014 (3-0), Germany (twice world champion 2003 and 2007) in October 2014 (2-0), Brazil (finalist in the World 2007) in November 2014 (2-0) and the US (double world champions in 1991 and 1999) in February 2015 (2-0) and the defending Japanese title in March 2015 (3-1).
Distributed and supported
The sport legitimacy of French footballers is no doubt but we can add a media in constant progress. The Blue games are broadcast on the TNT channel D8. This last renewed at the beginning of its contract with the French Football Federation until 2017/2018. The chain was the first entitée TNT to cross the two million viewers in 2011 during the semifinals of the Women’s World … between France and the United States: average of 2.43 million with a peak 3.2 million.
The crowds in stadiums is not left since the France team can mobilize about 12 000 spectators for beautiful posters, even with 15,663 spectators in Lorient Sunday, February 8 for the receipt of Americans. The opening match and the World Cup final in 2019 will be played in the new stadium in Lyon, currently under construction. In addition to the already chosen Rhone city, Candidate Cities are Auxerre, Grenoble, Le Havre, Montpellier, Nancy, Nice, Reims, Rennes, Paris (Jean Bouin) and Valenciennes. Eight will be selected from these ten folders.
It is far time pioneer
“It gets to fill stadiums with the team of France, who regularly more than 12,000 spectators. We have TV broadcasts on the national team, which went from 8 th 3 th place in the FIFA rankings, and the first division. It is at 83,000 redundant, an increase of almost 35,000 in four years’ , explained before the announcement of the decision, Brigitte Henriques
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More than forty years after the modern pioneers of women’s football, which was the epicenter Reims in 1970, eight years after the retirement of the first star French, striker Marinette Pichon (112 caps, 81 goals between 1994 and 2007), the path taken by the French footballers is considerable. It now remains to finally win a title.
This summer in Canada, from June 6 to July 5, Wendy Fox, Camille Abily and Louisa Necib, spearheads the Blue can claim the title at the seventh edition of the World Cup. Before the World Cup in 2019, they also have the opportunity to shine for the first time at a European Championship in 2017 in the Netherlands: they have never yet exceeded the quarter-finals (2009 and 2013 ).
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