spain you already know your luck in the next 2023 Women’s World Cup, although today all are doubts about which players are the ones who will be able to attend this important event that will take place next summer in Australia and New Zealand. While the tremendous mess that is right now the women’s team is resolved, on the horizon they wait Costa Rica, Japan y Zambia. The capricious drums wanted to match Spain with two countries that are also rivals of the men’s team in the next World Cup in Qatar. The complete carom could not be given because Germany, like Spain, was seeded in this draw.
Come who come, it does not seem the worst of the groups for Spain to sign a peaceful classification for the round of 16. Japan, with whom that group stage will close, seems the rival to beat for first place. The Asians were world champions in 2011 and runners-up in 2015, although they have just added a hit in the last World Cup, France 2019, where they did not go beyond the round of 16. Even so, they must be taken into account.
Spain fell into Group C. They were the first team to come out of the pot after the two hosts, and will play their matches from that first phase in New Zealand.
The premiere will be before Costa Rica on Friday, July 21, the day after the opening. The stage will be the Wellington Regional Stadium. There are few references to the Central American team, which will play its second World Cup after failing to get past the group stage eight years ago in Canada. His debut was, precisely, against Spain, in a match that ended 1-1. In the end he left with two draws and one loss, so he is still chasing his first win in a final phase.
Five days later, Wednesday, July 26, it will be time to measure Zambia, which debuts among the 32 best teams in the world. Their biggest success so far was winning the 2020 African qualifiers, which gave them qualification for the Tokyo Games. your star is Barbra Band, a striker who plays in China and who came close to joining Real Madrid this summer. She didn’t because her high testosterone levels held the white club back. Those levels made, for example, that she did not pass the mandatory gender verification of her Federation to include her in the list for the Africa Cup.
The closing will be on Monday, July 31, before Japana power that is not at its best, and that has several European football stars in its ranks, such as captain Saki Kumagai (Bayern), striker Mana Iwabuchi (Arsenal) or midfielder Yui Hasegawa (Milan).
The balance of Spain against the Japanese is good (2 wins and a draw), although there will be an option to gauge the situation of both teams before the World Cup match in the friendly that they will play on November 15 at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville. Before, on November 11, they will play another friendly against Argentina in Melilla.
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— Spanish Women’s Soccer Team (@SEFutbolFem) October 22, 2022
Of the rest of the groups, the highlight was the pairing of the United States and the Netherlands, who will face each other in the group stage after starring in the last final in 2019. In that group, you can also see a morbid United States-Vietnam.
Among the hosts, Australia will take on Olympic champion Canada, while New Zealand take on Norway. From this last group, by the way, the rival of Spain should come out in the round of 16.
That round, the round of 16, is Spain’s top in a World Cup. He reached it in the last edition, France 2019, after finishing second in the group stage. The United States, ultimately champions, eliminated the team then led by Jorge Vilda by 2-1.
In last year’s European Championship, Spain reached the quarterfinals, where it was eliminated again by the team that would later win the title, in this case England.
