The tournament will be played between July 20 and August 20 next year and the three Argentina matches will be hosted by New Zealand.
The albiceleste coach, German Portanova, was present at the ceremony hosted by Carli Lloyd, two-time Women’s World Cup champion with the United States, and journalist Amanda Davies. “Argentina is going to compete” for a historic classification to the next phase, declared the DT of the National Team that won the passport to the World Cup in the Copa América in Colombia.
Argentina will not have it easy: Sweden is second in the FIFA world ranking and a team with a long history in women’s football; Italy (14th) is one of the European teams that is constantly growing and South Africa (54th) is the African champion.
For the Argentines, who are in 29th place in the FIFA ranking and were in the third pot for the draw, it will be the fourth participation in their history after having played the United States 2003, China 2007 and France 2019 editions.
They never made it past the first round. In the 2003 and 2007 Cups they lost all three games in the area. In 2019, on the other hand, the national team drew two games in the group stage (0-0 with Japan and an epic 3-3 comeback against Scotland) and lost 1-0 against England to finish in 18th place.
Against the Swedes, Argentina has an official matchup, which was a 1-0 defeat at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They never played with the South Africans and they did not meet the Italians in official competitions, although the precedent dates back to the World Cup. 1971 official, in which the Europeans thrashed 4-0.
After the draw ceremony, which was attended by the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino; the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern; the Australian Sports Minister, Anika Wells; representatives of the teams already classified; FIFA Legends and international media, Argentina met their rivals from the group stage.
For now there are 29 qualified teams and the remaining three quotas will be decided in the qualifying tournament to be held from February 17 to 23 in New Zealand, in which Chile and Paraguay will be representing Conmebol along with Cameroon, China Tapei, Haiti , Panama, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Senegal and Thailand.
The World Cup will be played in nine cities and 10 stadiums. In Australia there will be games in Brisbane, Adelaide (two stadiums), Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, while in New Zealand in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Dunedin.
Ticket packages for the Women’s World Cup are now on sale. Tickets for individual matches will be available from October 25.
The 2023 Cup will be the ninth edition in the history of the Women’s World Cup, which began in 1991. The United States is the top winner with four titles, followed by Germany with two stars, Japan and Norway share the remaining two.
Argentina did not participate in the qualifiers for the World Cup in China in 1991, and did not qualify for Sweden 1995, the United States 1999, Germany 2011 and Canada 2015.
Source: Ambito
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