U20 Women's World Cup starts in Costa Rica

Xinhua News Agency, August 10 (Reporter Fan Xiaolin) The U20 Women's World Cup opened on the 10th at the National Stadium in San Jose, Costa Rica.

This is Costa Rica, after holding the U17 Women's Football World Cup in 2014, and once again hosted the youth football World Cup.A total of 16 teams participated in this event, starting the competition from 10 to 28.

During the unveiling battle that day, the host Costa Rica lost to the Australian team with 1: 3.In other games, the Spanish team tied the Brazil 0: 0, Colombia defeated the German team 1: 0, and the Mexican team tied the New Zealand 1: 1.

The two -year U20 Women's World Cup was originally scheduled to be held in 2020 and was jointly held by Costa Rica and Panama.However, due to the new crown epidemic, the competition was postponed to 2021, and then postponed to 2022, and Panama gave up the joint right to organize the joint organizational power due to financial difficulties.

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