#danielle slaton

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sandras_sports_shots BMO FIFA Women’s World Cup Gender Equity in Soccer Panel

Danielle Slaton Sonya Kunkel Christen Press Jill Ellis

Some of the facts shared in today’s discussion are:

“The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is forecast to reach 2 billion viewers world wide, which is a quarter of the global population.

We’ve seen a record breaking over 1 million tickets sold already in Australia and New Zealand with the tournament on track to be the most attended one in history.

According to Fox, advertising is selling faster than previous editions, 90% of it’s inventory is already sold a month out before the tournament.

FIFA prize money investment is three times greater compared to 2019 with the goal of equalizing pay between the Women’s and Men’s World Cup by 2026/2027.” - Danielle Slaton

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19. Danielle Slaton

Danielle Slaton was a five-year member of the U.S. National Team from 1999-2003 that won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and a member of the third place 2003 World Cup squad. Her first appearance with the USWNT was on February 24, 1999 against Finland. She scored her first goal on January 13, 2000 against Australia. She was the youngest member of the 2000 Olympic Team and the only member with college eligibility remaining. She had 43 appearances for the USWNT.

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World Cup 2019, Day 4, Group D: Argentina v Japan

With the Samurai Blue old guard having recently retired, not as much was expected from this fairly young JPN team, but it was still the greatest surprise of the tournament so far (for me and for most people paying attention) that they could not get more than a point from an ARG that nearly everyone discounted. You want a Cinderella story? ARG didn't even have an official national structure from 2015-2017. Their international training for 2019 consisted of friendlies against American college teams. They'd never even scored a point in any of their previous World Cup appearances. Their performance today reflected none of this: they were cool and collected, with a tight shape that confounded their opponent. Honestly, I was a bit shocked at the lack of imagination on the JPN side (did they even study ARG beforehand?) and irritated by their overreliance on laying up for overlapping runs that never came off. But even for a nil-nil draw, it was an entertaining game that busts this group wide open. Mad props too to the commentating team of Derek Rae and Danielle Slaton. Everything about today's match raised the game.

[womenssoccerhq]

I really like Danielle Slaton's commentary. Don't know much about her, but she's giving me good insights into what defenders' responsibilities are. 

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