Meet The Athletic’s Women’s World Cup guest writers
The 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off on July 20, with the game’s biggest names set to descend on Australia and New Zealand in a bid to lift football’s top prize.
After records were sent tumbling at last year’s European Championship, the women’s game will be aiming to follow up one game-changing summer with another.
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Can the USWNT make history by becoming the first team to win three successive World Cups? Will England follow their Euro 2022 triumph with more success? Can Spain overcome their off-field issues and perform to their potential? How will Women’s World Cup debutants Haiti, Morocco, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Vietnam and Zambia fare?
The Athletic’s journalists will bring you closer to the action on the ground in Australia and New Zealand, and for this tournament we also have five guest writers to offer unique insight and analysis.
Among our line-up are current and former players, a World Cup winner, a triple Ballon d’Or nominee and an extremely prolific striker.
Let’s get down to the introductions.
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Miedema has spent her career breaking goalscoring records. The Women’s Super League and Netherlands’ all-time top scorer is a three-time Ballon d’Or nominee, a 2017 European champion and 2019 World Cup runner-up. Miedema is one of a number of high-profile names who has been forced to sit out the 2023 World Cup due to an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. The 26-year-old Arsenal forward is no stranger to The Athletic, having dissected the best strikers on show at Euro 2020 as part of her guest column during that tournament.
Mewis has World Cup-winning knowhow. The marauding Kansas City Current midfielder was an important part of the
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