France 2019 World Cup preview
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
With the World Cup kicking off on Friday, Natalie Sawyer is joined by former England star Claire Rafferty, as well as Molly Hudson, Rebecca Myers and Matt Dickinson from the Times to preview arguably the most high-profile tournament in the history of women’s football.
It almost came home last summer but will it finally be coming home for England? Can Phil Neville lead the Lionesses to glory? And what impact will the World Cup have on future generations? Will the harshest critics of the women’s game take the tournament to their heart?
If it’s not to be England, who are the teams and players to watch? Can six-time World Player of the Year Marta finally lift the game’s richest prize? Will it be a World Cup double for the French?
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:36.0 | The Women's World Cup in France is almost upon us. |
| 0:40.0 | 24 teams competing in 52 matches in nine cities over the course of one month |
| 0:45.4 | All for the most prestigious prize in women's football |
| 0:48.6 | We'll be coming to you every Monday and Thursday during the tournament Today we'll be looking ahead to the |
| 0:54.5 | most high profile women's World Cup of all time alongside me in the studio today |
| 0:59.3 | women's football reporter for the Times, Molly Hudson, writer for the Sunday Times. |
| 1:04.0 | In the Sunday Times Sport, it is Rebecca Myers. |
| 1:06.0 | The Times Chief Sports writer Matt Dickinson is here, |
| 1:10.0 | and we're also joined by the former England |
| 1:12.0 | and Chelsea star, Claire Rafferty and |
| 1:14.5 | Claire let me just start with you. |
| 1:15.8 | You recently announced your retirement from football. |
| 1:18.6 | How hard a decision was that to make? |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah, I mean it's not something that I decided overnight it's been probably a six to seven |
| 1:25.5 | month process leaving Chelsea for me was quite emotional so it's been difficult to kind of |
| 1:32.1 | refocus but I had a fantastic year at West Ham and yeah I'm |
| 1:36.3 | 13 hour I've had free a lot of injuries on top of that so my body finally kind of |
| 1:45.1 | said you know is enough's enough and for me I always wanted to be playing at the top level and as soon as I feel like I'm not able to |
| 1:49.6 | do that I wasn't really willing to take a step down. |
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