Get ready for a historic World Cup
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off on July 20. Get up to speed on why this is a historic tournament in women’s soccer.
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We’re doing something a little different today. Our resident sports experts are taking over the mics. Join sports columnists Candace Buckner and Sally Jenkins as they prepare us for the women’s World Cup with The Post’s soccer reporter Steven Goff.
They’ll discuss the players and teams to watch out for and if the U.S. women's national team can pull off the tournament hat trick – winning a third World Cup in a row. Also, they dig into how the sport has changed since the U.S. Soccer equal-pay settlement in 2022 and what this means for other countries fighting for equity.
All this ahead of the U.S. women’s first game on July 21 at 9 p.m.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm jealous. You're leaving on a jet plane. I'm so jealous. And you're going all the |
| 0:07.9 | way across the world. I've always heard the Smith that the water goes in the opposite |
| 0:12.2 | direction down the drain in Australia because you're on the other side of the equator. So |
| 0:16.7 | it's your job to report back. That's our first investigative report. There you go. From |
| 0:21.6 | down under Australia. Yeah, no, it's going to be, it's going to be an adventure. |
| 0:26.4 | Do you think there will be an outback steakhouse in Australia? If so, I want to bloom an onion |
| 0:34.3 | on the other side of the world and see if it tastes like it does in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 0:39.3 | It's bad there as it does here. You're an elitist. No, lemon onions are the best. Outback |
| 0:45.1 | is good. I guess. Of course, the bougie soccer reporter among us, and we should probably |
| 0:51.2 | introduce ourselves. We are taking over the post report studio. We, uh, we sportos and |
| 0:59.8 | uh, we're talking about what I did. We have pirate. We want everybody else out. Yes. Okay, |
| 1:05.5 | let's explain to people who we are. I'm Candice Buckner. I'm a sports colonist at the Washington |
| 1:11.6 | post and I'm new to soccer. Yeah. You're going to the World Cup. I'm going. I'm going to bring |
| 1:17.2 | back a koala bear. How about you, Stephen Goff? I was Stephen Goff, uh, a soccer |
| 1:21.6 | writer for the Washington Post. This will be, uh, World Cup number 14, including six, six |
| 1:26.8 | women's World Cups. And I'm Sally Jenkins. I'm a columnist for the Washington Post. Let's go, |
| 1:31.5 | Sally. Yeah. This is our little team in here. This is our dream team. This is our dream team. |
| 1:40.4 | It's Wednesday, July 19. And this is post reports. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:46.1 | football. It's World Cup time for the women in Australia, New Zealand. Can I do it? Can I do it? |
| 2:01.4 | I have a question. Is Stephen Goff the greatest soccer reporter in the world? 200% |
| 2:07.0 | completely. 200% most knowledgeable. His Twitter, his Twitter handle is soccer insider. Yeah, |
| 2:13.3 | I trust you on all things. Socrates soccer. That's just because I got it first. That's |
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