Last summer, France’s men’s soccer team won the World Cup for the first time since 1998. Now the French women’s team—ranked fourth in the world—has the opportunity to do the same, and on home soil too, just like that ’98 men’s squad.
But the expectation is that even if France’s team falls to the Americans, Germans, or a dark horse team in the Women’s World Cup, which kicks off on June 7, the nine French cities that host the matches will still be winners thanks to the economic boost that comes from the tourism that accompanies such a big, glorious sporting spectacle.
