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When Galli trusted her right foot

Italy, perhaps the biggest revelation of the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™, were on course to match their biggest ever win at the competition – a 5-0 defeat of Chinese Taipei in 1991 – when Aurora Galli got an outstretched foot to the ball some 25 yards from goal.

Dreams realised in France for US hackathon winner

Hai Tan Le provided winning ‘prototype track’ in FIFA’s hackathon Virtual competition sought ways to integrate voice assistants with football American’s reward was watching USA win fourth #FIFAWWC title in Lyon For Hai Tan Le, the chance to combine football and technology was simply too enticing. As a software engineer, the latter

Celebs in awe as USA make it four

Celebrities aplenty took to social media to hail the USWNT Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, Niall Horan and Barack Obama were among them Sports stars Kobe, Lebron, Serena and Steph also paid tribute USA touched down at the eighth FIFA Women’s World Cup™ with it all to do. The pressure of being defending champions,

Van de Donk: The whole of the Netherlands is proud

Netherlands midfielder says she is proud despite Women’s World Cup defeat She went off social media during tournament to stay focused The Arsenal star puts the team's success into perspective Netherlands midfielder Danielle Van de Donk said she was “proud of her team” and the Netherlands despite her country’s defeat by the

The ’19ers in numbers

3 Women’s World Cup Finals is what German Birgit Prinz was the only player to have appeared in until five Americans – namely Tobin Heath, Ali Krieger, Lloyd, Morgan and Rapinoe – joined her. Prinz and Rapinoe are the only ones to start three deciders.

Ta-dah! The 360° Fan Pic of the final is live

Find yourself and your friends on the 360° Fan Pic Virtual highlight presented by Qatar Airways Tag yourself and share your experience on social media Special occasions should be marked by special photographs, and that is precisely what happened at the Final of the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ between USA and

Cristiane heads her way into contention

Brazil veteran Cristiane scored a superb header against Australia The forward enjoyed a rich vein of form which included an opening hat-trick Is this France 2019's best goal? Vote now for your favourite The encounter between Brazil and Australia had everything you could ever hope for in a football match. The South Americans

Vote now for the Hyundai Goal of the Tournament 

Cast your vote for the Goal of the Tournament Ten goals from the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ in the running Voting open until 17 July on FIFA.com and the Official FIFA App Scoring goals is probably the one thing that football fans love most about the beautiful game – and the

Carney: We need to have fire in our belly

Karen Carney has retired from football Midfielder says England "need to have something to push on for" 144-capped Carney talks about what's next for her By Laure James with England Karen Carney has bowed out of football with 144 international caps, after coming on in the second half as the Lionesses

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