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What today’s email is all about:

• Who will win the FIFA Women’s World Cup? 🏆

• Club football is back! ⚽️

• Transfer News: Harry Kane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Standing Ovation: Jay-Jay Okocha 🇳🇬

• Memes 😂

And then there were 4

4 teams remain. None of them have won the FIFA Women’s World Cup before. Who will make history?

🇪🇸 Spain

• World ranking: 6

• This is their first time reaching the tournament’s semi-finals.

• 15 - Joint-most goals scored (so far) at this tournament together with Japan.

🇸🇪 Sweden

• World ranking: 3

• Has reached the semi-finals 5/9 times in the tournament’s history.

• Came 2nd in the 2003 WWC after losing to Germany in the final.

🇦🇺 Australia

• World ranking: 10

• This is their first time reaching the tournament’s semi-finals.

• The tournament hosts and last remaining underdog.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

• World ranking: 4

• This is their 3rd consecutive run to the semi-finals but never have they made it past this stage.

• Current holders of the UEFA Women’s Championship, can they make it 2 big international trophies in 2 years?

4 matches left

The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is almost at its end. With the final week of action ahead of us make sure you don’t miss these last few big clashes and witness the crowning of a new champion.
All match times below are UTC+2

Semi-Finals

• 15 August 2023

  • 10:00 - Spain 🇪🇸 vs Sweden 🇸🇪

• 16 August 2023

  • 12:00 - Australia 🇦🇺 vs England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Match for 3rd place

• 19 August 2023; 10:00

🏆 The Final 🏆

• 20 August 2023; 12:00

Club Football is back!

Here are the headlines from the action this past weekend:

A brace for Haaland in the 2023/24 Premier League’s opening fixture as Manchester City makes light work of newly promoted Burnley.

Jude Bellingham capped his debut with a goal as Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0.

CR7 scores 2 goals and secures his first piece of silverware at Al Nassr after winning the Arab Club Champions Cup.

Not an ideal start for PSG who drew 0-0 with Lorient in Ligue 1 as Mbappe watches from the stands.

Hat-trick hero Dani Olmo steals the show in the DFL-Supercup as RB Leipzig triumph over Bayern.

Son Heung-min is Tottenham’s new captain after Kane’s departure to Bayern.

Welcome to Bavaria, Harry Kane.

Bayern Munich broke their own, as well as the Bundesliga’s, transfer record when they paid £100m to sign Harry Kane from Tottenham.
£100m for a 30-year-old striker, what was Bayern thinking? Goals. That’s what. Click here to see some of Kane’s best moments for Spurs over the years.

PSG finally signs another Frenchman 🇫🇷

On his 50th birthday today, we salute African football legend Jay-Jay Okocha with our Standing Ovation.

When talking about African and Nigerian football one of the first names that come up is Jay-Jay Okocha. He played for the Nigerian National Team from 1993-2006 and was also their captain from 2002-2006. During this time he was chosen as the Nigerian Footballer of the Year on 7 occasions.

Okocha and his Nigerian team stunned the world when Nigeria won the Olympic Football at the 1996 Olympics in the US.

Okocha was the Player of the Tournament and joint Top Goalscorer at the 2004 African Cup of Nations where Nigeria finished 3rd.

Fun fact, he has got a stadium in Nigeria named after him.

Click here to see some of Okocha’s best moments on the football field.

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