This Fifa Women’s World Cup is historic, record-breaking, unprecedented. It features eight debutants – including Ireland – broadening the playing pool to 32 teams. It’s outclassed the viewing records and the attendances set at the World Cup 2019 in France. After 16 games, the average attendance was 28,721 per match, marking a 54 per cent increase from the same average attendance for 16 games in the 2019 tournament. Days into the tournament, a whopping 1.5 million tickets had been sold.  Australia, one of the co-hosts of this World Cup, has a national hero in the form of Chelsea player and…

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