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Host city Auckland prepares for World Cup spotlight
  + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
AUCKLAND, July 19 (Reuters) - Excitement was building across Auckland as the city prepared to kick off the Women's World Cup on Wednesday, the culmination of years of effort to bring the largest ever standalone women's sporting event to its shores. Auckland will host nine matches at Eden Park across the tournament, including one semi-final. While Australia's Matildas are genuine title contenders, the Football Ferns have never won a match at a Women's World Cup. With digital billboards popping up around Auckland featuring the women's home team, Chance said she is already seeing signs of change. The ninth Women's World Cup runs until Aug. 20 when the final takes place in Sydney.
Persons: Santha Brown, Brown, We've, Australia's, Fern Olivia Chance, Chance, Amy Tennery, Nathan Frandino, Peter Rutherford Organizations: AUCKLAND, New Zealand's Football Ferns, Norway, FIFA, Eden, Football Ferns, Veteran, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Auckland, Eden, Queen's, New Zealand, Australia, America, Sydney
The Matildas called out gender disparity in World Cup prize money in a video message released on Monday, ensuring the topic will stay front-and-centre days before the tournament kicks off on their home turf and in New Zealand. The team went on strike in 2015 to demand better pay and have received the same minimum percentage of prize money for tournaments as their male counterparts since 2019. The statement comes amid upheaval across women's soccer, with players demanding better pay and playing conditions across the globe. The governing body previously said it aimed for prize money parity by the next World Cups in 2026 and 2027. Reporting by Amy Tennery in Auckland, additional reporting by Lori Ewing; editing by Clare FallonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Olivia Chance, Rebecca Sowden, Christina Philippou, England's, Megan Rapinoe, Amy Tennery, Lori Ewing, Clare Fallon Organizations: AUCKLAND, United States, Socceroos, FIFA, New Zealand, Reuters, Australian, University of Portsmouth, Football Association, Thomson Locations: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, Qatar, Brazilian, Norway, New, Auckland
June 22 (Reuters) - Midfielder Annalie Longo is in a race to recover from a serious knee injury and make New Zealand's Women's World Cup squad, but will gladly endure pain to play in front of home fans if selectors back her. The 31-year-old tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial ligaments in her left knee against Mexico last September but has returned to training with Jitka Klimkova's Football Ferns to push for a fourth World Cup appearance. "For me it's kind of a do-or-die, risk-reward thing," she told Reuters from training. "I think just the nature of the time-frame there is going to be a bit of uncomfortable pain in the knee but it's all to play at a home World Cup. Drawn in Group A, New Zealand will also play Philippines and Switzerland in the preliminaries, looking for their first ever win at a World Cup and to fulfil their goal of making the knock-out phase.
Persons: Annalie Longo, Jitka, Longo, I've, I'm, Olivia Chance, Ria Percival, Klimkova, shrugged, Ian Ransom, Muralikumar Organizations: Mexico, Jitka Klimkova's Football Ferns, Norway, Reuters, Ferns, New Zealand, Iceland, New Zealand Football, Thomson Locations: Eden, Czech, New Zealand, Philippines, Switzerland, Melbourne
MELBOURNE, April 12 (Reuters) - Women's World Cup co-hosts New Zealand suffered another blow to their confidence in the leadup to the tournament on Tuesday with a 3-0 defeat to Nigeria in a friendly and the loss of veteran midfielder Betsy Hassett to a suspected broken rib. The defeat in Antalya, Turkey extended the Football Ferns' winless run to 10 matches and heaps further pressure on embattled coach Jitka Klimková. Hassett's injury added salt to 25th-ranked New Zealand's wounds, the midfielder forced from the field after 70 minutes after clashing with Oparanozie. New Zealand, who co-host the Women's World Cup with Australia in July and August, have not won since handing the Philippines a 2-1 defeat in September. They meet Norway, Philippines and Switzerland in Group A at the World Cup.
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