Canada, the Olympic champion, will not add a Women’s World Cup to its list of honors this year.
Marta, the Brazilian star, will not end her career with the one international trophy that has eluded her.
And Germany, somehow, managed to engineer its own exit despite winning its first game by six goals.
At the end of two weeks, this World Cup has incontrovertibly delivered on its stated aim — to provide a stage on which women’s soccer’s simmering revolution might burst into life.
That unpredictability, that sense of old hierarchies and longstanding orders being overturned on a daily basis, has illuminated the World Cup, of course.
Persons:
Marta, —
Organizations:
Portugal
Locations:
Canada, Germany, Nigeria, Australia, Colombia, United States, Jamaica, France