WELLINGTON: The Wellington Phoenix will seek a licence to enter a women's team in Australian soccer's W-League as New Zealand and Australia ramped ...
WELLINGTON: The Wellington Phoenix will seek a licence to enter a women's team in Australian soccer's W-League as New Zealand and Australia ramped up their final push on Thursday to co-host the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The joint bid for the global showpiece received a major boost on Wednesday when world governing body FIFA rated it as the best to host the tournament, ahead of the two other bids from Japan and Colombia."I think given a ... once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to host a World Cup on the horizon ... a professional women's team out of Oceania is more important and achievable than ever before," Phoenix general manager David Dome said in a statement.
It would also help improve pathways for women's players into professional soccer, with most of New Zealand's Football Ferns pursuing careers in Europe and North America. The W-League has nine teams, with eight allied to A-League sides. Its season ended in March shortly before the rest of professional sport shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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