FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada

The world’s largest tournament for female soccer, the FIFA Women’s World Cup, is scheduled to take place in 2015, the year after the men’s, in Canada. Begun in 1991, the games have provided female footballers with opportune moments to display their athletic competence on the global stage. Unlike the Men’s World Cup, a nation outside of Europe and South America boasts a victory: the Japanese female team won the title in 2011. Even the United States, a country whose soccer continuously lags behind that in Europe and Latin America, has gained much prestige from its triumph in the Women’s World Cup of 1999. Now, the stage is nearly set for the tournament to take place once in again in Canada. International teams in Africa and North America, and their subsequent federations CAF and CONCACAF, are in the qualifying rounds. Officials representing the cities in which the games will occur met in Ottawa to discuss with FIFA associates the complex advertising and preparation that the Women’s World Cup demands.

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