Football: Women's World Cup Group F
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The FIFA Women's World Cupin Australia and New Zealand kicks off on July 20.
AFP Sport takes a detailed look at Group F:
FRANCE (FIFA ranking 5)Coach: Herve Renard (FRA)
Star player: Kadidiatou Diani (unattached)
Best WorldCup performance: Fourth place (2011)
France are in many ways the great underachievers of international women's football. They have never won a major title and have made a nasty habit of falling short, going out of the last two World Cups in the quarter-finals and in the semi-finals of last year's Euro.
Les Bleues are also recovering from a turbulent few months following the sacking of Corinne Diacre as coach in March.
Diacre was ditched after several leading players, including captain Wendie Renard and star forward Kadidiatou Diani, said they would no longer play under her.
She was replaced by Herve Renard, who led Saudi Arabia to a famous win over Lionel Messi's Argentinaat the men's World Cup in Qatar.
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FootballThe new coach's task is complicated by injuries, with attacking stars Delphine Cascarino and Marie-Antoinette Katoto ruled out of the competition.
Nevertheless France have the quality to go far and the quarter-finals must be a minimum objective.
JAMAICA (FIFA ranking 43)Coach: Lorne Donaldson (JAM)
Star player: Khadija Shaw (Manchester City/ENG)
Best World Cup performance: Group stage (2019)
Jamaica are back at the Women's World Cup after losing all three group games on their debut in 2019. They qualified after finishing third at last year's CONCACAF W Championship.
The Reggae Girlz will be doing very well to make it out of the group
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