Full Description
The Official History of the FIFA Women's World Cup is an authoritative and comprehensive review of the seven FIFA World Cup tournaments played since the inaugural tournament in 1991. Packed with more than 800 photographs, unique official documents and statistics, it celebrates women's football like no other book. As well as reviews of all editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup and Summer Olympic Games Women's Football tournaments, this volume contains a history of women's football and how it has developed and spread around the world. Each FIFA Women's World Cup section contains a full statistical review. Exhaustively researched by the experts at the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich, this book relives the history of women's football from its earliest days in the late 18th century right up to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup held in the summer. It studies the development of women's football from the days it was outlawed to the present day, showing how each of FIFA's six confederations have embraced the sport and developed it, as well reviewing all of the major global women's football tournaments. This is the ultimate history for anyone who loves women's football and wants to understand how it all began.
Contents
Introduction * Foreword by Gianni Infantino * Origins of Women's Football * British Ladies * England vs France * Banned * 1968 Italy * 1970 Italy * 1971 Mexico * FIFA Women's Confederations * 1986 FIFA Congress * 1988 International Tournament * 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup China PR * 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup Sweden * 1996 Olympic Games Atlanta * 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup USA * 2000 Olympic Games Sydney * 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup USA * 2004 Olympic Games Athens * 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup China PR * 2008 Olympic Games Beijing * 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Germany * 2012 Olympic Games London * 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Canada * 2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro * 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France.
