Brazil has made the same allowance when its men’s team — the most successful in World Cup history — plays on soccer’s highest stage, but this is the first time the measure has been extended to women’s games, according to Management Minister Esther Dweck.
“If I were an athlete from a country like the U.S., that is strong in women’s football … and I won the title of best player in the world five times, the attention I got would be much bigger,” she said. “Financially, it would probably be very different as well. This is a reflection of the situation of women’s football in Brazil, which still doesn’t recognize its athletes.”Now, women’s soccer is booming in popularity across the world. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, said that a record 1.
Some feared that holding the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which are in an earlier time zone than almost anywhere else in the world — Sydney is currently 13 hours ahead of Rio de Janeiro and 14 hours ahead of Washington — would deter audiences in the western hemisphere.Brazilians who took the morning off work and switched on the TV about 8 a.m. were rewarded with a hat-trick of goals by forward Ary Borges, whoRacing Louisville in the National Women’s Soccer League.
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