With all of the futuristic stadiums that we saw in the latest events around the world, the "ancient" flavour of the one in Colonia del Sacramento (1'20" of the video) is not displeasing to my eyes. It's just an old typical place or will it actually be the official venue of some matches at WWC 2018?
Plaza de toros Real de San Carlos - it was bull fighting arena before 1912 when it was prohibited by government. Now it's mostly ruin.
Oh, it's a shame: I had the feeling it couldn't be an actual football stadium. It would have been funny, though.
FIFA have added a page for the U17 World Cup in Uruguay http://www.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/index.html?_branch_match_id=471715152290363520
Qualified teams : Host Uruguay (CONMEBOL) AFC North Korea, South Korea, Japan CAF Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon CONCACAF 3 slots CONMEBOL 2 slots OFC New Zealand UEFA 3 slots
The draw for Uruguay 2018, the sixth FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, will take place on Wednesday 30 May, at the Home of FIFA in Zurich.
@shlj Qualified teams : Host Uruguay (CONMEBOL) AFC North Korea, South Korea, Japan CAF Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon CONCACAF 3 slots CONMEBOL Brazil, Colombia OFC New Zealand UEFA 3 slots
Host Uruguay (CONMEBOL) AFC North Korea, South Korea, Japan CAF Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon CONCACAF 3 slots CONMEBOL Brazil, Colombia OFC New Zealand UEFA Spain, Germany, Finland
Draw news When: Wednesday 30 May Time: 15:00 (CET) / 10:00 (Uruguay time) Where: the Auditorium at the Home of FIFA, Zurich How to follow: Live video coverage of the ceremony will be broadcast on FIFA.com, Facebook and FIFA TV on Youtube The pots The 16 finalists will be placed in four pots of four teams. Each team will receive a number from one to four in their respective pot, depending on their results at previous tournaments. The seedings for the three CONCACAF countries, whose identities are yet to be confirmed, will be based on the rankings of the three best-performing teams from that region at the last five editions of the tournament. Pot 1: Uruguay, Japan, Korea DPR, Spain Pot 2: Germany, Ghana, CONCACAF 1, CONCACAF 2 Pot 3: Brazil, New Zealand, CONCACAF 3, Korea Republic Pot 4: Colombia, South Africa, Cameroon, Finland Draw procedure The four pots representing the groups will be labelled from A to D There will be four balls in each of them, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 to represent the different positions in the group The draw will start with “Pot 1” and will end with “Pot 4”. Each pot must be emptied before the draw moves on to the next one Each time a ball is drawn from a team pot, a corresponding ball will be drawn from the group pot in order to determine that team’s exact position in the group As the hosts, Uruguay have already been assigned the first spot in Group A No one group can contain more than one country from the same confederation
Group A looks wide-open. On recent form, maybe Finland. Groups B, C, and D all have dragons. And at least one of these groups shall gain another dragon In a fantasy-conspiracy world, could CONCACAF 2 possibly find Group D more palatable than B, and ... choose to end there? I don't see it. Both groups are scary enough. (Obviously, CONCACAF 3 has zero incentive to game anything, since they must win to get in at all.)
Agreed... I guess on paper group B looks less heavy than D but both have dragons as you pointed out. Question is which one of two smaller ones (Korea Rep. or Brazil) will feel more manageable for whom of both CONCACAF finalist. The real scare though (especially for Cameroon), could take place in group C would USA team landed in there (3 dragons)
What has Brazil won at this level aside from the qualification tournaments? At least Korea Republic has a WC to their name, even if it was 8 years ago.
"New blood" so to speak is badly needed among women refs. Rapid developement of WoSo (higher tempo and speed of play) demands same from the refs and here lies the problem as many of "established names" in refs world didn't caught with the change. Good to see Koroleva, Hussein and Mularczyk - imo FIFA should invite all three of them to France. Kulcsar and Yamashita are known quality although for various reasons they weren't in FIFA limelight lately. Pustovoytova and Reibelt were on the rise not so long ago while Persson is back after she was droped from "the list" last year. Venegas and Vulivuli seem "political" choice. For Mukansaga and Beaudoin this tourney may prove crucial to stay on "the list" Dunno much about Carvajal, Fortunado and Miranda.
#U17WWC | La delegación de FIFA ya se encuentra en el país visitando junto al Comité Organizador Local las obras de remodelación y colocación del césped sintético del Estadio Charrúa. pic.twitter.com/WxCRxmz5FR— AUF Femenino (@AUFfemenino) August 31, 2018 Artificial turf...?
I can't remember in this moment which games exactly I saw directed by her, but I remember Lucila Venegas as a good referee, with a commanding but fair style of direction, and, if my (old) memory still serves me, she had done quite well in the previous tournaments where she had been invited. I agree that Vulivuli is probably in the list mainly because there has to be an OFC representative, but her name has an enough strange sound that I remember having read it before in other FIFA tournaments' lists, so she should have at least some experience.
Koroleva? Um, no. (And that's based more on NWSL, and not on her PK mistake in the US-Chile friendly just now.)
Yes, I read about that on the US threads some minutes ago and it looks like a mind-boggling decision: a disallowed goal scored from PK? Really?
The PK was disallowed for sure. The actual call is unclear: encroachment? a foul? And no matter how you slice it, the restart was bungled.
Well if she stands out from "usual" NWSL refereeing standards then it's even better (as I sometimes do find interpretation of FIFA LotG used in that league quite hmm..."peculiar"?) Seriously though my opinion about her comes from only a handful of matches, (including only one international) so perhaps there is something on case