Fifa Women's World Cup Canada 2015: The Official Book

By Catherine Etoe, Natalia Sollohub, Jen O'Neill

Book Overview

From June 6 to July 5 2015, 24 teams from around the world will compete in the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup in venues across Canada, including Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton, with the final taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia. This guide provides an insightful and in-depth preview of women's soccer's biggest and greatest tournament.
Women's soccer is of growing interest to Canadians after the team's strong showing in the London Olympics and the routinely excellent performance of star players like Christine Sinclair. How has the team performed in the lead up to the world cup? What have been some of its successes and failures? How does Team Canada stack up against the other teams? All these questions, and many more, will be answered in the official book of the 2015 tournament.
This guidebook includes a review of the qualifying campaign; information on each of the tournament's six venues; an in--depth analysis of all 24 participating teams and their star players; and a retrospective look at the first six FIFA Women's World Cups. In short, the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 is essential reading for every fan of women's soccer.
The book includes: Tournament background The Road to Canada The Venues The Teams History of the FIFA Women's World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup Quiz Tournament fill-in chart

The book also gives a preliminary look at most of the same teams that will be competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770502963
• ISBN13: 9781770502963
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Whitecap Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"