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The W Gold Cup trophy | Courtesy of Concacaf
A pal, who shall stay nameless, instructed me that they didn’t anticipate a lot from the 2024 W Gold Cup. Of their eyes, it was set as much as be a mean match at greatest.
Nevertheless, their opinion shifted through the 23 days of intercontinental soccer motion. And, earlier than Sunday’s last — the place the USA outlasted Brazil 1-0 — they reached out to say that that they had put their palms up. With humble pie formally eaten, they confessed the match had in reality delivered. And maybe even Concacaf deserved some credit score.
Though I’ve all the time been a W Gold Cup truther, there’s a sentiment that the primary stand-alone Concacaf girls’s match in twenty years did exceed expectations.
On the similar time, there have been completely weird moments these previous three weeks that may go down in soccer lore for the fallacious causes.
So, with the solar lastly setting on the 2024 W Gold Cup, how will we grade this idiosyncratic match?
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