Breaking down the top players, start times and schedules for each of the four-team groups in the 2023 Women's World Cup.
Australia, which reached the quarterfinals in three of the last four World Cups, has been pointing toward the chance to play a World Cup final at home for years and the timing might be right. Superstar Sam Kerr, the team’s all-time scoring leader, is in the prime of her career at 29, having led Chelsea to four straight WSL titles.
Nigeria’s players were squabbling with their coaching staff and federation as well, and less than a week before the World Cup, there were fears this game might not be played. If Nigeria does show up, it will be missing midfielder Ngozi Okobi, who was left off the roster.Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso, second left, celebrates with teammates after scoring during a match against South Africa in the 2019 Women’s World Cup.
Zambia is led by electric forward Barbra Banda, who became the first woman to score hat tricks in consecutive Olympic matches in Tokyo two years ago, yet her team didn’t win either game. Haiti, meanwhile, needed wins over Senegal and Chile in an intercontinental playoff to qualify for its first World Cup, and comes in with a fast, dynamic team that includes seven players from U.S. club and college programs.Denmark hasn’t played in a World Cup or Olympics since 2007 but enters this tournament having won four of its last five, with three of those wins coming against World Cup qualifiers; its seven goals this season have come from seven different players.
The top-ranked U.S. has one of the oldest, most-experienced rosters at the World Cup, with an average age of 28. But the team also includes 14 players who have never been to this tournament, among them Studio City’s Alyssa Thompson, just the second 18-year-old to make a U.S. World Cup team. Vietnam has lost four games to World Cup qualifiers in the last two months, by a combined score of 15-2.
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