FIFA considering staging Women's World Cup every two years
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espn.comPosted Dec 20, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC
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espn.comMore does not equal better. They already increased the pool of teams from 24 to 32 despite watching a few countries get absolutely blasted in the last world cup because they're so far behind.
There's a fine line to walk between increasing access to the tournament, and making it too bloated with teams that obviously do not belong in such a competition. Making it every other year will just exacerbate the problem of taking it seriously as a soccer tournament instead of an obvious cash-grab.
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I do agree that I am not a fan of them increasing the pool to 32 as we saw a few countries get obliterated.
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I knew it was staged!
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Ha!
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Ok, make it relevant! It doesn’t go no where closed to The Football World Cup ( the men’s world cup!), besides there’s no major games or tournaments like the men’s side!!!
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FIFA continues to be a cancer to the sport by thinking "more more more" will just make the sport and its tournaments more attractive. We don't need more teams and more countries at every tournaments ffs, increasing the amount of times is already ridiculous enough as it is considering we had a 13-0 game last year and a 10-0 game & 10-1 game in 2015.
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Which is why I don't think they should expand the teams from 24 to 32, but having it more often would be good for more exposure for the women's game.
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Why? Cause there’s no champions league, carabao cup? Club World Cup ? Just why
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How long before it's running at a loss?
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Twice the opportunity not to watch
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No idea what the impact on players and teams would be but this is my all time favorite soccer event so I’d love to see it more often
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Same!
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Apparently this opinion is invalid, looking at the downvotes, can someone explain why?
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lol People are stupid, your opinion is a good one. Haters gonna hate.
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Based on the lack of quality in women’s teams scrapping continental cups in favour of a World Cup every 2 years. Could be a good idea for women’s football. The women’s World Cup is the only women’s football event that gets lots of coverage
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Exactly! I love the way the women play, it's great!
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Man here and soccer fan since a toddler. I actually watched the recent women’s World Cup and I was surprised to find them enjoyable with games on par with the men’s in terms of competitiveness and action. Seriously, they were pretty interesting to watch and at first I kind of didn’t want to watch em but the games were pretty good. Don’t knock em just because they’re women, this is the beautiful game whether played by men OR women as long as there is skill involved. Sure there wasn’t a lot of flashy moves but they did use real tactics and strategies to score goals and that was interesting to watch. I think this is a good short term strategy to bring in more fans because it’ll bring the best of the best of the female players front and center for the world to watch
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I preferred the Women's World Cup to the Men's. Easily.
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Sounds like a terrible idea. For example, isn't there a regional cup, such as the Euro's, in between two world cups?
Too much world cup makes it less special.
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Who watches those other cups though? Not many people. And the Super Bowl and March Madness is always exciting every year it happens. Two years is fine.
Well I can't speak for women's football, but I wouldn't want it in men's football because a lot of people do watch the Euros and Copa America and we wouldn't want to get rid of those. And you need two years to get in all the qualifying matches.
Again, can't speak for women's football, it's a different world and it works in a different way.
u/Lightfiretx was talking about women's football, though, so I'm not sure why he's being downvoted for that comment. Tons of people watch those events for the men. The equivalent women's events get virtually zero coverage. The stuff in between the World Cups just doesn't have remotely close to the same following for the women that it does for the men, which is probably why they're considering this idea in the first place.
The other competitions get zero coverage in America. The euros get plenty of coverage in Europe.
Exactly. It is getting downvoted though because people are idiots and I expect no less to be honest.
Euro 2016 was apparently watched by 2 billion people. The final was watched by 600 million people.
Really? Wow, well that is great to hear!
That’s men’s not womens
Not many people watch those????
Not the Women's cups.