Football Focus host and former England player Alex Scott has hailed the UK’s sole bid to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup tournament
England’s Lionesses will once again roar when the Women’s World Cup comes home to the UK in 2035.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced the UK was the sole bidder for the tournament in 10 years time. Now, if our bid is ratified at next year’s FIFA Congress, it will be the first football World Cup to be held in Britain since the men’s team triumphantly lifted the gleaming Jules Rimet trophy in 1966.
Thrilled by the news, Alex Scott, former Arsenal Women’s and England player and current host of Football Focus, tells The Mirror : “That is just amazing!
“If I go back to when we hosted the Olympics in 2012, that was one of our first times walking out at Wembley as a football team for Team GB. We got 87,000 people there, that was a historic moment for us, walking out.”
Excited by the opportunities the 2035 tournament will bring for a new generation of female players and for girls watching from the stands, she continues: “For people coming into stadiums, [who aspire] to be what they are cheering on; for…
