England Women will play USA and France at home in 2015 as preparations advance for next summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. They will take on FIFA World Ranked no.1 team USA on Friday 13 February and fourth-place France on Thursday 9 April. Venues and kick-off times will be announced in the coming weeks. The matches will
How many people had heard of Stephanie Roche before her wonder goal was placed on YouTube? The incredible strike has earned her a professional contract with French side ASPTT Albi, nomination for FIFA Puskás Award for goal of the year and worldwide acclaim as the video has achieved almost 3 million hits! She is now probably the most
England Women were brought down to earth by a classy German side after the eight-time European champions ran out 3-0 winners at Wembley Stadium. The stage was set for a memorable afternoon, with a record 45,619 crowd in attendance to see the Three Lions’ first match at the famous stadium since it re-opened in 2007.
It has finally arrived – the day so many of our footballers have dreamt about since they were children, pulling on football boots for the first time. Soon they will be putting on their England shirts; tying up their pink laces on their new boots and running out onto the hallowed Wembley turf to the
Alexandra Burke will perform the national anthem ahead of England Women’s historic match against Germany at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. The 26-year-old won The X Factor in 2008 and is currently enjoying a spell in the West End as the lead role in The Bodyguard. To mark The FA’s new partnership with Breast Cancer
Reading’s Fran Kirby scooped the FA WSL 2 Players’ award, after enjoying a breakthrough season where she was top goalscorer with 29 goals, and earned regular call-ups to Mark Sampson’s England squad including a call up to the squad for the historic match against Germany on 23 November. The awards, which are an annual event
The players’ lawsuit against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) will continue following the CSA’s refusal to enter into negotiations. The gender discrimination case has been brought before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal on the grounds that the FIFA would never hold the men’s tournament on artificial pitches, in fact since 1930 the men’s
Mark Sampson has selected his 23-player squad for England Women’s historic match against Germany at Wembley Stadium connected by EE next week. Karen Carney is in line to make her 100th international appearance. The Birmingham City captain made her England debut against Italy in 2005 and has scored 23 times for the Lionesses. Eight of
The Awards season is in full swing and the nominees have now been announced for the 2014 BT Sport Action Woman Award. This award, voted by the British public, comes at the end of another fantastic year for Women’s sport. It will be fascinating to see who will succeed last year’s winner, Downhill Mountain Biking
To date 55,000 tickets have been sold for the England vs Germany game on 23 November at Wembley. According to the FA that is 22,000 tickets sold since last Monday. However, because long standing engineering works are due to take place on that day, meaning that the Metropolitan Line will be closed as well as
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