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“There’s still a gap between the top nations but it’s slowly closing”

“What are Africa’s chances of causing a shock at the Women’s World Cup in the same way that Morocco shook up Qatar?

I think Morocco have shown it is possible. We’re going to a second World Cup, you have Nigeria who have been ever-present and we have Morocco who have done fantastically with a women’s programme. Zambia always surprise; you look at what they did at the Olympics, even though they didn’t get through to the next round, but they surprised a few.

Football is now not about the rankings anymore. It’s about what happens on the field. Our team, for example, is four years older, more

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