Place: China
It is with great pleasure that we recognise the tremendous strides women's football has made in recent years. Having long since wiped out any misconceptions of football being predominantly a men's sport, today football proudly counts over 30 million female players worldwide.
With the launch of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008 and the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (formerly U-19) now complementing the Women's Olympic Football Tournament and FIFA Women's World Cup on the new women's coordinated international match calendar, the competitive allure and technical quality of the women's game is indisputably higher than ever. Citing such examples as the 90,000+ people at the Final of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1999, fans worldwide have enthusiastically and emphatically voiced their support for women's football by flocking to FIFA events in record-setting numbers.
However, FIFA is determined not to rest on past success, but rather is committed to continue pushing forward as there still remains much work to be done in the development of women's football across the globe.
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