SYDNEY : Thousands of football fans crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday to mark the start of a 25-day countdown to the Women's World Cup, which is being co-hosted by Australia.The Antipodean nation is putting on the quadrennial tournament with New Zealand in July and August across nine cities.
SYDNEY : Thousands of football fans crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday to mark the start of a 25-day countdown to the Women's World Cup, which is being co-hosted by Australia.
More than 4,000 people crossed the bridge as part of"a festival of football" ahead of the tournament, which will see teams from 32 nations participate, FIFA said in a statement. "This is an amazing opportunity to start the soccer World Cup and women, well, we deserve the world so we are here," one attendee told Channel 7 television.
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