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Supporters are seen throughout the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Girls’s World Cup Group E soccer match between Portugal and the USA at Eden Park in Auckland on August 1, 2023. (Photograph by Saeed KHAN / AFP)
SYDNEY — A Colorado lady has been acknowledged because the 1 millionth ticketholder to attend a recreation on the Girls’s World Cup being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
Soccer’s world governing physique on Tuesday stated Rebecca Sheely had the milestone ticket when she went to Auckland’s Eden Park to observe the defending champion U.S. crew maintain on for a 0-0 draw with Portugal.
FIFA stated complete ticket gross sales have virtually reached 1.7 million. The event has already damaged attendance information for a Girls’s World Cup.
The earlier mark was round 1.35 million who attended a 52-game event in Canada in 2015. The 2023 version has been expanded to 32 groups and can embody 64 matches.
Rebecca Sheely and her daughter, Janelle, stated they’d been following the U.S. girls’s crew on the final three World Cups and had tickets all the best way to the ultimate.
The opening video games on July 20 set information for girls’s soccer matches in each co-host international locations. The gang at New Zealand’s upset win over Norway set a brand new nationwide mark of 42,137. Australia’s 1-0 over Eire later that day attracted 75,784 at Stadium Australia.
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