Surprising Results

Less than five days away from kicking off the 2019 Women's World Cup and some friendlies have had some surprising results.  On Saturday, #3 and Group D top seed England lost to #19 New Zealand (Group E), 1-0, and #6 and Group C top seed Australia got hammered by #8 Netherlands (Group E), 3-0.  On Sunday, a couple of friendlies in France saw #7 Japan (Group D) rally to tie #13 Spain (Group B) while #12 Norway was the least surprising in thrashing #49 South Africa (Group B) 7-2.  New Zealand will be the last World Cup team to play a friendly, traveling to face Wales on Tuesday.

We have 16 entries thus far, certain to surpass 2015's total of 22 and likely pass the 27 we got for Euro 2016.  We are a long ways off in catching the men's World Cup total of 79 entries last year but we shall see.  Because the World Cup 2018 pool started just five days before, technically we have more entries for the Women with five days to go (16 to zero) ;-)

Remember, you have until noon PDT on Friday to enter the pool.  Enter online now!