Japan, winner of the Women’s World Cup in 2011, wishes to organize the 2031 edition in order to revive national football, now overtaken by Europe and North America, explains the president of the Japanese federation Tsuneyasu to AFP. Miyamoto. “ We would like to raise the quality of women’s football in Japan », Declares the boss of the Japan Football Association (JFA) at the body’s headquarters in Tokyo, in front of a huge photo of the world champion team in 2011. Still finalists in 2015, beaten by the Americans, the Japanese are not then went beyond the quarters. And Miyamoto regrets that Japan did not know better “ capitalize on the triumph of 2011 “.
Japan wants to organize the 2031 Women’s World Cup
