the women's world cup 2023

I will have semi-regular updates to my World Cup blog during the upcoming Women's World Cup 2023. As I noted there, many of the matches will be at inconvenient times for people like me in California, but I'll do what I can. Here is the first post on the other blog:

It begins tomorrow. It won't be easy to follow in real time ... the matches are played in Australia and New Zealand. Tomorrow kicks off with four matches, and the starting times here in California are Midnight, 3:00 AM, 7:30 PM, and 10:00 PM.

As usual, I will be rooting for the U.S., and then Spain. The Americans are going for their third straight championship, and they are favored. Probably the best match to watch if you only check out one will be hosts Australia vs. Ireland at 3:00 AM, since Australia has Sam Kerr. Quoting Michael Cox at The Athletic: "Everything is set up for Sam Kerr to have a tournament incomparable with anything else any women’s footballer has experienced. The obvious poster girl for a tournament played in her home nation, Kerr can reasonably claim to be the most dangerous striker in the game."

Meanwhile, here is the ad that has gone viral. I've seen it twice now, and I'm still not sure I understand it, but everyone else seems very impressed:

Comments

[Tomás]

Looking forward to your commentary and analysis! And I'm sure you "get" the ad, you just know it's made for a place that is way, way--WAY--behind the US in terms of gender and sports. :)

[Steven Rubio]

I watched the ad a second time and realized what had been done, that the "real" was the women and the VR was the men. That made more sense.

Got to listen to parts of the first two matches. Already had the commenters curse: Sam Kerr is the only player I mentioned, and she is out for the first two games at least.