Australia and New Zealand: The perfect sporting hosts?

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4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As the countries prepare to host the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup for the first time, we find out why they were chosen, and what the legacy of the games will be for them.

We take a look at the hospitality sector, including a café owner in New Zealand, who are hoping for a big boost from overseas visitors. How will they make the most of the opportunity, and cope with the influx of people coming into the town.

And we hear from an architect about the new training ground that the Australian women's football team, The Matilda's, will call home.

Presenter: Sam Fenwick Producer: Barbara George

(Photo: Sydney Olympic Stadium. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Whether you call it football or soccer in your part of the world,
0:03.1	Match of the Day, Africa Top 10 is the podcast from the BBC World Service
0:06.6	ranking the best African players.
0:08.4	This guy is recognized as the best in the world.
0:10.3	Teams.
0:10.8	The ball coming turn, boom.
0:12.6	And the biggest moments in African football.
0:14.4	The whole world remembers that.
0:15.8	Remember that yet?
0:16.5	It's not just African fans.
0:18.0	Match of the Day, Africa Top 10.
0:19.8	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:25.2	I never would have dreamt that this would have happened.
0:27.8	And, you know, I think still kind of pinching myself to know that it's real.
0:35.1	Three years ago, Australia and New Zealand won the right to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.
0:42.3	Really excited, really happy, elated.
0:46.0	Yeah, we've been waiting for this for a long time.
0:49.4	It's been billed as a World Cup of firsts.
0:52.6	It's the first time in either the men's or the women's
0:55.3	game that the competition will be held in the Asia Pacific region. It's the first time
1:00.7	32 teams will compete in a women's world cup more than ever before. And it's the first time
1:07.7	that sponsorship and broadcasting deals have been sold separately from the men's competition.
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