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12 centrespread centrespread 13 JUNE 09-15, 2019 JUNE 09-15, 2019 The Basics Tournament Trivia This is Scotland’s Reigning champion It is the fi rst Women’s Tournament is a JUNE 7-JULY 7 fi rst World Cup and US will defend title World Cup to use qualifi er for European WHEN they will take on against Thailand on video assistant ref- teams for 2020 Tokyo A primer on the ongoing FIFA Women’s England on June 9 June 11 eree system Olympics WHERE France, with matches in Lyon, Paris, Nice, Montpellier, Rennes, Le Havre, World Cup in France Valenciennes, Reims and Grenoble :: Prerna Katiyar The offi cial slogan The event’s mascot Ettie is a Motto is ‘Dare to Shine’ young chicken with passion for TEAMS France (4), South Korea (14), Norway (12), GERMANY or ‘Le moment de football. She is the daughter of Footballers to Spot & Mascot briller’ in French Footix, the mascot of 1998 (with FIFA Nigeria (38), Germany (2), China (16), SPAIN Dzsenifer Marozsan rankings) FIFA World Cup in France Spain (13), South Africa (49), Australia (6), Alexia Putellas (captain) Italy (15), Brazil (10), Jamaica (53), (attacker) England (3), Scotland (20), Argentina (37), NORWAY It’s Popular Japan (7), Canada (5), Cameroon (46), Caroline Graham New Zealand (19), the Netherlands (8), Tickets for opening In 2015, 764 mn TV Also, 86 million Hansen (winger) & match, semi-fi nals viewers watched had watched the the US (1), Thailand (34), Chile (29) and fi nal sold out the tournament held matches online or Kristine Minde and Sweden (9) in 2 days in Canada on mobiles (midfi elder) Opening match: France Vs South Korea Back & Forth Chile, Jamaica, US are seeking Hosts France Germany can tie Scotland and South their fourth title looking to the US with three Africa making and are ranked capture its fi rst titles if they are Women’s World number one in cup trophy on able to stave off Cup debut the world home soil competition SCOTLAND FIFA Women’s Kim Little, World Cup Erin Cuthbert & THE NETHERLANDS YEAR Host Winner Caroline Weir JAPAN Vivianne Miedema 1991 China US (attackers) Saki Kumagai (forward) 1995 Sweden Norway (defender) 1999 The US US 2003 The US Germany BRAZIL 2007 China Germany Marta Vieira da Silva 2011 Germany Japan (forward) 2015 Canada US 2019 France US ENGLAND Alex Morgan (forward and FIFA AUSTRALIA Steph Houghton (defender) champion) Sam Kerr Toni Duggan & Megan Rapinoe (captain and Fran Kirby (attackers) and Carli Lloyd forward) (midfi elders) Source: fi fa.com | bbc.com.