FIFA Women’s Football World Cup 2023 in New Zealand

 New Zealand and Australia is hosting the FIFA Women’s Football World Cup this year  between 20 July to 20 August 2023.

New Zealand’s women team played on the 20^th July 2023 against Norway. New Zealand won the game, 1-0. Hannah Wilkinson, number 17, scored the goal.

The Kowhai Corner Groovy Girls football team are meeting today for a practice at the football field. 

They have been told that a guest from East Coast Bays Football Club is coming to show them some skills and take them for todays training session.

The Kowhai Corner football team have been told to come properly dressed for this training session. The rule for clothing to wear at practices is a plain top, no patterned material or a picture on the front and plain coloured shorts, no patterned material. How many girls have not kept to the clothing rule of the club? (The answer is at the end of story).

Here he is. CC walks towards the girls, he is not sure if this is a football team or not because of the distracting colourful clothing and no numbers on their tops. He has his bag with a water bottle, towel and other things in.

Kali jumps up and welcomes CC to Kowhai Corner and hands him the ball. CC starts his introductory talk by asking the team, “Who won the woman’s football in 2019?” (The answer is at the end of story). He is bouncing the ball around as he talks and soon gets the team up and involved in different exercises and skills. When the session ended CC said he will bring a team with him next month so they can put their skills to use.

New Zealand and Philippines played last night and the score was 1-0 to Philippines.

Suddenly, five dogs appear barking and running towards CC.

 A lady is running behind the dogs calling Lacy, Lorenso, Lily, Lottie and Lexi.

She gathers them all up and puts them in her car.

 The others walk over to the hall to have a drink and cupcakes that have been set out by Polly. Polly is going to be busy sewing shorts for the girls to wear for football.

CC was unable to meet up with Kalvin on this visit because he has covid.

The answer to the first question is U.S.A and the host country was France.

The answer to the second question is nine girls are wearing patterned t shirts or have a picture on the front and four girls are wearing patterned material shorts.

New Zealand and Switzerland played on 30 July 2023 and the score was 0-0. New Zealand is now out of the competition for the woman's world football cup. 

The final game was played in Australia between England and Spain. Spain won 1-0.

There will be a part two to this story.