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A two-page news round-up. The UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter-final draw pairs Arsenal with Goteborg, holders Lyon with Brondby, Turbine Potsdam with Rossiyanka and Malmo with Frankfurt, with the final set for Munich’s Olympiastadion on 17 May, two days before the men’s. Homare Sawa is crowned FIFA Women’s World Player for 2011 ahead of Marta and Abby Wambach, with Japan’s Norio Sasaki named Coach of the Year. Grimsby Ladies, founded in 1886, are revealed by a Grimsby Town social history project to predate British Ladies’ FC as England’s oldest women’s team. Other items cover the latest FIFA rankings and new highs for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the expansion of Euro 2017 to sixteen teams, the FA Women’s Cup final at Ashton Gate, and the Cyprus and Algarve Cup line-ups.