If you were hoping that Germany’s women would be a far cry from its World Cup winning men, you should stop reading right now. Germany are good. Really, really good. This-makes-you-understand-why-Germans-are-associated-with-perfection good. 11-0, 6-2, and 7-1 wins are normal for them. They once went through an entire round of European qualifying with an average of 4 goals per game. They have won 8 of the 11 European Championships ever to be held, including the past 6 in a row.

England seems to believe that they can do anything and everything. Which, for those who know a thing or two about England’s male side, should fill you with a sense of abject doom; no team has grown more accustomed to collapsing under the weight of enormous expectations that the Men’s English National Team. But fear not, the Lionesses do not operate under a cloud of quasi-self fulfilling prophecies. Their belief is, as redundant as it is to say, not tainted by disbelief. 

With less than a month until the first whistle, fans are deciding which Canadian city they should crash in for what is expected to be a tight field in this year’s expanded cup. Check out the following host stadiums to help plan your trip.    

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We are going to start off our preview of the best and brightest teams in the 2015 World Cup with a look that “The Other Team” in this Summer’s Group of Death: Sweden, currently ranked 5th in the world. 

The 2015 Women’s World Cup is less than a month away and the United States Women's National Team is poised to make a deep run.

If we had to guess, Sepp Blatter has been referred to as “godfather” many, many times in his career, but never in a good way. The President of FIFA has been associated with any and everything bad that goes on in soccer’s global governing body: bribery, corruption, and lack of accountability. If he has offered people deals that they can’t refuse, then their undeniable quality likely had little to do with being good. 

The winners of the 2011 World Cup are back and stronger than ever, says Japan head coach Norio Sasaki: