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#FIFAWWC 2023 Recap: Fast Facts, Awards & Things We Loved
She Kicks, issue 81, October 2023 pp.36–37
A two-page wrap of statistics, awards and favourite moments. Spain become the fifth nation to win the World Cup and the first to hold the U-17, U-20 and senior titles at once. A record 27 penalties were awarded outside shootouts, 164 goals scored and 1,978,274 tickets sold. Aitana Bonmati takes the Golden Ball, Hinata Miyazawa the Golden Boot and Mary Earps the Golden Glove, while Sweden claim bronze again. The ‘things we loved’ list salutes a goalkeeping standard Keira Walsh called the story of the tournament, Chloe Kelly’s penalty measured at 110.79km/h, Linda Caicedo’s Goal of the Tournament, Nouhaila Benzina wearing the first hijab at a World Cup, and farewells to Marta and Megan Rapinoe.