The FIFA Women’s World Cup received underway on the Eden Park stadium on Thursday with co-host New Zealand securing a slim 1-0 win towards Norway.
The match may have a number of the finest gamers in ladies’s soccer throughout the globe as 32 nations will battle it out in a bid to be topped as world champion.
Here are 5 attackers to be careful for on this 12 months’s Women’s World Cup:
Sam Kerr – Australia
An inevitable title on the checklist is the Australian ahead Sam Kerr. Kerr’s checklist of data is lengthy, ranging from her debut for her nationwide facet on the age of 15. This will probably be her fourth look within the quadrennial showpiece and the second as Australia’s captain. In the earlier version, she scored 5 targets, together with 4 towards Jamaica.
Kerr has been a constant performer within the WSL as properly. Last season the 29-year-old was a standout determine for Chelsea, which clinched the league title for the fourth time in a row. Kerr comes into this World Cup after scoring 17 targets in 31 matches throughout competitions for Chelsea and can hope to maintain the momentum kicking for Australia, the co-host.
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Khadija Shaw – Jamaica
Jamaican ahead Khadija Shaw is a compulsive addition to this checklist. She’s coming into the World Cup on the again of an excellent season with Manchester City within the Women’s Super League (WSL). The 26-year-old scored a whopping 31 targets in 30 video games within the 2022-23 season and helped her membership safe a top-four end. Additionally, Shaw is the all-time main goalscorer for Jamaica with 56 targets underneath her belt.
Jamaica will want Shaw’s firepower up entrance after being positioned in a slightly aggressive group F, alongside heavyweights similar to Brazil and France.
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Alex Morgan – United States
USWNT captain Alex Morgan could be 34 years outdated however she nonetheless possesses the attributes one would count on from a deadly striker. The 15-goal 2022-23 season with San Diego Wave FC within the National Women’s Soccer League is a testomony to her mobility and hanging capabilities.
Morgan was part of two World Cup-winning USWNT sides and was additionally part of the gold-medal-winning facet within the 2012 Olympics. Morgan has earned 207 worldwide caps, notching up 121 targets. With two consecutive World Cup titles of their cupboard, Morgan and Co. will probably be optimistic a few record-breaking hat-trick of titles, a feat that hasn’t been achieved within the historical past of the game.
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Alexandra Popp – Germany
Alexandra Popp is among the largest names in Germany, scaling unimaginable heights. She is a seven-time Bundesliga champion, Euro runner up and has an Olympic gold in her cupboard. But she’s had a justifiable share of heartbreaks as properly. She needed to miss the 2013 European Championship, as a result of an ankle harm, which Germany received and likewise missed the 2017 version of the match as a result of yet one more harm. Despite such harm setbacks, the 32-year-old has scored 62 targets in 128 worldwide appearances.
Germany will fancy no less than a Round of 16 end, after being drawn into a comparatively less-competitive group alongside Colombia, Morocco and South Korea. Popp will attempt to translate all her expertise into this World Cup, in a bid to clinch the one trophy that has eluded her.
Asisat Oshoala – Nigeria
Asisat Oshoala comes into this World Cup on the again of a formidable season with Barcelona, scoring 21 targets in 28 appearances and is the one participant from Nigeria to be nominated for the Ballon d’Or feminin.
Oshoala, who has discovered the again of the online within the earlier two editions of the match, will intention to copy the identical and assist Nigeria qualify for the Round of 16 for the primary time ever.
