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This is very strange, any time I google "women football world-cup 2007" I get the wwiki link of it, but when I'm posting this link (I tried twice above as you can see)...no way, as you can see by clicking on the link, it is leading nowhere but on
a message that says : "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for 2007 FIFA Women in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.

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Really weird, isn't it?

So, sorry, but as I hate F***g censors, I'll copy-paste the page here, it begins with :

"The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 will be held in China from September 10–September 30, 2007.[1] Originally, China was to host the 2003 Women's World Cup, but the outbreak of SARS in that country forced that event to be moved to the United States. FIFA immediately granted the 2007 event to China, which means that no new host nation will be chosen competitively until voting is held for the 2011 Women's World Cup.

The tournament opened with a record-breaking match in Shanghai, as Germany beat Argentina 11–0 to register the biggest win and the highest scoring match in Women's World Cup history."

After it says :

" Qualification
Main article: FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 qualification
16 nations will participate in the Women's World Cup finals. As the host, China automatically qualified, having saved its automatic entry in 2003. The remaining fifteen berths were divided as follows, with at least one going to each of the six FIFA confederations: five to Europe, 2.5 to Asia (plus hosts China), two to Africa, two to South America, 2.5 to North America, Central America and the Caribbean and one to Oceania. The half spot indicates that the 16th qualifier was determined through a play-off between the third placed teams from Asia (Japan) and CONCACAF (Mexico), with the Japanese team coming out victorious"

It also tells about the teams :
Teams
Africa (CAF)
Nigeria
Ghana
Asia (AFC)
China PR (host nation — automatically qualified)
Australia
Korea DPR
Japan (defeated Mexico in AFC–CONCACAF playoffs)
North America, Central America & Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Canada
USA
Europe (UEFA)
Norway
Sweden
Germany
Denmark
England
Oceania (OFC)
New Zealand
South America (CONMEBOL)
Argentina
Brazil

And about the stadiums here the football grounds are :

Venues


ShanghaiChengduWuhanTianjinHangzhouThe venues selected to host the competition are:[2]

City Venues Capacity
Tianjin Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium 60,000
Wuhan Wuhan Stadium 55,000
Hangzhou Yellow Dragon Stadium 51,000
Chengdu Chengdu Sports Center 40,000
Shanghai Hongkou Stadium 34,000 (upgrade in progress

Let's talk about money now :
[edit] Monetary rewards
For the first time in FIFA Women's World Cup history, all teams will get monetary bonuses according to the round they reach (all in USD):[3]

Champions: 1,000,000
Runners-up: 800,000
Third place: 650,000
Fourth place: 550,000
Quarter-finalists: 300,000
First round exit: 200,000

I think I'll play football again! Wow... this makes money!
Brasil lost: 0x1 to Germany...

Other rewards
UEFA is using the FIFA Women's World Cup as its qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympic women's tournament. The best three performing UEFA teams will qualify for the Olympics. Originally it was thought that, should England make the top three European teams, they would compete under the United Kingdom banner. However, on 6 September 2007, FIFA issued a press release indicating that England are ineligible to participate in the 2008 Olympics as England does not have its own Olympic Committee. [1]

For the determination of the ranking only first through fourth place, quarterfinal elimination or group phase elimination count. If there is a need to make a distinction between teams eliminated in the quarterfinal or between teams eliminated in the group phase these teams will meet in a play-off match. In no case will the points or goals (difference) count for teams eliminated before the semi-final.

Germany and Norway have qualified for the Olympics whereas Denmark and Sweden will play a play-off for the third Olympics spot.


[edit] Draw
The group draw took place on 22 April 2007 in Wuhan after the completion of the qualifying rounds.

FIFA automatically seeded the host and defending champions, slotting China and Germany into Group D and Group A, respectively. [3] The FIFA Women's World Ranking for March 2007 was used to determine the teams to occupy the other seeded positions, B1 and C1.[4] United States were ranked first, Germany second and Norway third[5], so the United States and Norway were also seeded.

Also, no two teams from the same confederation could draw each other, except for those from UEFA, where a maximum of two teams from UEFA could be drawn into the same group. Group B quickly became dubbed the group of death [6] since three of the top five teams in the world were drawn in this group — the USA (1st), Sweden (3rd) and Korea DPR (5th), according to the June 2007 FIFA Women's World Rankings, the last to be released before the tournament. The same four teams were drawn together in Group A in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup[6], on that occasion the USA and Sweden progressed to the knockout stages.

[edit] Quarterfinals
September 22, 2007
17:00
Germany 3 – 0 Korea DPR Wuhan Stadium
Attendance: 37,200
Referee: Tammy Ogston
Garefrekes 44'
Lingor 67'
Krahn 72' (Report)

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September 22, 2007
20:00
USA 3 – 0 England Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium
Attendance: 29,586
Referee: Jenny Palmqvist
Wambach 48'
Boxx 57'
Lilly 60' (Report)

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September 23, 2007
17:00
Norway 1 – 0 China PR Wuhan Stadium
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Gyöngyi Gaál
Herlovsen 32' (Report)

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September 23, 2007
20:00
Brazil 3 – 2 Australia Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium
Attendance: 35,061
Referee: Christine Beck
Formiga 4'
Marta 23' (pen.)
Cristiane 75' (Report) De Vanna 36'
Colthorpe 68'


[edit] Semifinals
(All times UTC+

September 26, 2007
20:00
Germany 3 – 0 Norway Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium
Attendance: 53,819
Referee: Dagmar Damková
Rønning (o.g) 42'
Stegemann 72'
Müller 75' (Report)

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September 27, 2007
20:00
USA 0 – 4 Brazil Yellow Dragon Stadium, Hangzhou
Attendance: 47,818
Referee: Nicole Petignat
(Report) Osborne 20' (o.g.)
Marta 27' 79'
Cristiane 56'


[edit] Third place playoff
September 30, 2007
17:00
Norway – USA Hongkou Stadium



[edit] Final
September 30, 2007
20:00
Germany – Brazil Hongkou Stadium

Francky.. I'm not interested in football, what are you doing :P

So football women's team from Germany won the FIFA world cup, but I've no idea about the scores, I'll ask Thais...
Germany : 1 Brazil : 0.

Well if there are so many posts, I apology, but it is wiki's fault, why do they forbide export of their links (so stupid!)

I received 4 postcards from cucumis friends
-One from Brazil (goncin)...

-one from China (pluiepoco)

-one from Holland (Chantal)

- And one from Croatia (Maski)


thanks a lot!

My cards are on the way, uhú.

I got my stamps today, so I can write some postcards this evening. There are quite a lot to do, I think we must be at least 15 or 20 (I didn't count) of us already.

I'm going to get a writer's cramp!!

I received yesterday a letter and a card from Menininha. Thank you!

She has a very nice handwriting, and the card she has sent me is not exactly a postcard! That was the surprise, I liked it very much! I won't tell you what kind of card is it, for the case she has sent similar ones for other people. But I'm afraid that is a kind of card only foundable in Brazil.