Tournament feature
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 France Draw
She Kicks, issue 51, January 2019 p.8
A page reporting the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup draw, made at La Seine Musicale in Paris with Alex Scott among those presenting. The headline outcome for British readers is that England and Scotland will meet in their opening game in Group D, which also pairs the Lionesses with Argentina and, in a rematch of the Canada 2015 semi-final, Japan. All six groups are listed in full: France, South Korea, Norway and Nigeria in Group A; Germany, China, Spain and South Africa in B; Australia, Italy, Brazil and Jamaica in C; Canada, Cameroon, New Zealand and the Netherlands in E; and the USA, Thailand, Chile and Sweden in F. The page notes that the four best third-placed teams advance alongside the six group winners and runners-up, and names the eighteen head coaches pictured together.