It is so great to see the sellout and loud crowd in Paris. Such great support for women's soccer and the A1-French team dominated so well, it made me forget about the female Zidane, Louisa Necib! After nearly getting a Pando score (5-0), and would've been except for VAR (Video Assistant Referee), FRA shook off their jitters and completely routed A2-Korea Republic, 4-0, to open the Women's World Cup. Speaking of VAR, no one seemed to know why the FRA goal in the 27' was being reviewed for so long. Both the English (Fox) and Spanish (Telemundo) commentators saw either inconclusive or no offsides but after a couple minutes, the ref drew the imaginary box and disallowed the goal! At least FIFA provided a screen cap of the offsides but only showed it for a few seconds. VAR has to show this type of screen cap every time because it lessened the controversy, though really, draw some thicker lines for "gray areas" because a couple inches should be "close enough" and not have to stop the momentum of the game (really, it felt like FRA was going to win 10-0) and take away a beautiful goal.
Well, unofficially we have 44 entries and all 44 picked FRA so everyone is tied for 1st! The 44 entries is double 2015's total and is more than the men's EURO pool (37) in 2016 and tied the men's EURO pool in 2012. This is 56% of the men's total last year so unscientifically, we can say the interest in the Women's World Cup is 56% of the men's World Cup which is pretty good.
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