World Cup Herstory: waiting FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

It is less and less until the start of the Women's World Cup, which for the 2023 edition will be hosted in Australia and New Zealand. Among the leading teams of the event is obviously Italy, which wants to replicate the excellent tournament made in 2019. In recent years many things have changed in the women's football movement and the athletes themselves have been the architects of a cultural change in the way football is understood. Elena Linari and Arianna Caruso will be some of the most important faces in the blue group that has been made official by coach Milena Bertolini in the past few days. The two players in the WORLD CUP HERSTORY format told nss sports and nss G-Club in a video interview how they are preparing for the tournament, what it means to wear the Azzurri jersey and what we have to expect from their opponents in group G, which will be South Africa, Argentina and Sweden.

In the days before the departure for New Zealand, where the national team will play its group matches (in Auckland and Wellington) in the suitcase Elena Linari will also put the captain's armband of the national team. In fact, it will be her personality that will guide the Azzurro group, as well as her experience, on which the national team has always relied in recent years. From the interview carried out by Linari with nss G-Club, one can perceive the impatience to start this adventure, the same feelings as Arianna Caruso, who, although at her first World Cup, is among the most experienced players in the group, after the successes achieved in recent years with Juventus.

The reasons to follow the World Cup are many, concerning the field and not only, Elena Linari tells how 'many things have changed in women's football, since last year we have become professionals and the social and television following is important'. The World Cup will be the showcase for a change in the culture of the sport and the aim is for it to continue to be so in Italy, Caruso however admits that this responsibility 'must be lived with great tranquillity, because it is the dream of a lifetime that has come true'. The World Cup starts on 20 July, the Azzurri will do so on the 24th, and the reasons for following the matches are about football and what it can still improve on, especially off the field.