Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Paris: Head coach Yoon Duk-yeo has declared that he is looking for Korea Republic to move on as quickly as possible from Friday’s 4-0 defeat to France in the opening match of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Wendie Renard’s brace as well as goals from Amandine Henry and Eugenie Le Sommer helped France to a comprehensive Group A victory as Korea Republic regularly struggled to contain the rampaging host nation at an atmospheric Parc des Princes in Paris.
The defeat, whilst far from extinguishing Korean hopes, has left Yoon’s charges with plenty of work still to do if they are to reach the competition’s knockout phase, a point not lost on the 58-year-old tactician.
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Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Paris: A commanding performance from host nation France proved Korea Republic’s undoing on Friday as they were beaten 4-0 in the opening match of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Wendie Renard’s brace and the inspirational form of Amandine Henry and Eugenie Le Sommer were the undoubted highlights of the morale boosting win for France, one which sends them to the top of the Group A table ahead of Saturday’s match between fellow group hopefuls Norway and Nigeria.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Lyon: Japan midfielder Saki Kumagai has a special reason to look forward to her country's opening match in the FIFA Women's World Cup - her adopted home is France.
Kumagai has been with Lyon since 2013, and has helped the French side become Europe's pre-eminent force in the women's club game.
Lyon won their fourth consecutive UEFA Women's Champions League title last month, crushing Barcelona 4-1 in the final.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Rennes: Jia Xiuquan believes his China PR players are rapidly improving, but stopped short of predicting an upset win over European powerhouse Germany in Saturday’s opening FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 Group B clash.
Ranked second in the world, the Germans haven’t tasted defeat against China PR since 2006, marking the eight-time European champions as strong favourites for the match at Roazhon Park.
But the Steel Roses are eight-time continental champions themselves, and despite a relative scarcity of recent success, Jia – who became head coach last May – says his team are moving in the right direction.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Paris: Australia, Japan, China PR, Korea Republic and Thailand will carry the hopes of a Continent when the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 begins on Friday.
With all five teams confident of performing strongly, and Asian teams having reached the final in three of the past five FIFA Women’s World Cups, hopes are high that the 2015 achievement of four AFC nations reaching the knockout stage can be equalled in France.
One of the Asian contingent, Korea Republic, will be in action in the tournament’s opening match, against France in Paris on Friday, with the final to be played in Lyon on July 7.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: After four years of waiting, the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 finally begins on Friday with an eagerly-anticipated opening match between the host nation and Korea Republic at the famous Parc des Princes in Paris.
Ahead of the tournament, the-AFC.com enlisted five women’s football experts – one from each Asian nation competing in France – to tell us what to expect in the biggest women’s football tournament on the planet.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Valenciennes: Laura Alleway’s hopes of a third FIFA Women’s World Cup appearance have been dashed at the eleventh hour due to injury, with uncapped teenager Karly Roestbakken taking the defender’s place in the Australian squad.
The FFA confirmed the last-minute switch on Thursday, just one day before the tournament’s opening match, after Alleway failed to recover from foot injury sustained during the build-up to the competition.
The absence of Alleway, who has earned 60 caps in an international career spanning nearly a decade, comes as a blow to the Matildas but it provides Canberra United youngster Roestbakken with a maiden call up.