{"id":5354,"date":"2011-06-28T20:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2011-06-28T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T10:29:54","slug":"fifa-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5354","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Women’s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GROUP A:<\/strong> Germany, Canada, Nigeria, France
\n GROUP B:<\/strong> Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, England
\n GROUP C: <\/strong> US, N Korea, Colombia, Sweden
\n GROUP D:<\/strong> Brazil, Australia, Norway, Equatorial Guinea<\/h3>\n

The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Germany a few days ago.\u00a0 We’re only a night away from the Matildas kicking off their campaign against Brazil (at 2 in the morning!).<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to watching the competition unfold.\u00a0 They’ve sold 750,000 tickets for this tournament so there should be a solid attendance at most of these games and there are a number of teams that have a realistic shot at winning this thing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Australia have drawn a stupidly hard group with both Norway and Brazil considered serious contenders to win the tournament.\u00a0 We’ve gambled on a youth policy with nine players aged twenty or under but we seem to be hitting pretty good form heading into the competition beating Mexico in a friendly and drawing with England.<\/p>\n

I’m backing Australia to win the tournament but would be happy to see New Zealand and Japan in the mix too.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, it couldn’t possibly be any worse than World Cup 2010 – no vuvuzelas, better refs, no Pim Verbeek and no chance of a Spanish team winning another tournament.<\/p>\n

Also, the players are nicer to look at \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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GROUP A: Germany, Canada, Nigeria, France GROUP B: Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, England GROUP C: US, N Korea, Colombia, Sweden GROUP D: Brazil, Australia, Norway, Equatorial Guinea The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Germany a few days ago.\u00a0 We’re only a night away from the Matildas kicking off their campaign against Brazil (at …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[222,988,987],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fifa","tag-matildas","tag-world-cup-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}