2023 Women's World Cup: Argentina's Vanina Correa shares emotional reaction to 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup aim
Posted : 12 July 2023
The seasoned goalie discusses her feelings when the national men's team was named world champions in December. She was a member of the team during the 2003 competition in the United States.
"To be honest, I cried. I cried a lot," explains Vanina Correa, who will soon lead Argentina at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in New Zealand.
After Argentina's Lionel Messi and his team defeated France on penalties in the championship game in Qatar, an estimated five million fans flocked to the streets of Buenos Aires to welcome them home as heroes.
La Albiceleste are getting ready for their debut encounter at the Women's World Cup against Italy at Eden Park, Auckland, on July 24, seven months after those extraordinary sights in Argentina's capital.
No nation has ever been able to simultaneously host the men's and women's World Cups. That's not expected to alter in the near future.
Argentina leads the men's game, while the women, who are ranked 28th in Fifa's rankings, haven't won a game in any of their previous three outings at the international competition, which took place in 2003, 2007 and 2019.
That may help to explain why there isn't much indication in the nation, which is obsessed with football, that manager German Portanova and his team will compete in the biggest women's sport event.
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