That's a wrap. Well done Spain. 

Well done to Spain.England gave it a shot but  found the Spanish ability to play out under pressure frustrating and the Spanish defence well organised.

If we had made the final against Spain we would have been torn apart.Technically and gamewise streets ahead of our girls.

it is funny Englands MF was miles a head of ours and it seemed like spains MF was a fair bit a head of Englands....shows the gulf in class at the 'very very top' can still be quite wide. 

Feel for the England keeper she saved a pen and made some solid saves - she didnt deserve to be on the loosing side tonight but other then that England were the 2nd best team tonight 

Congradulations to Spain - the only nation in history to have won the womens and mens fifa world cup - i hope they plaster that everywhere if the fu-k heads at in the USWT EVER act cocky ever again 

Glad that the team with the best football skills won WCup rather than the physically toughest and roughest. Technically and tactically outplayed the Poms 👍
and thank f*ck no ‘sweet Caroline’ played 👏

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/world-cup/strange-celebration-sums-up-the-divide-and-disunity-that-couldnt-stop-world-cup-champions/news-story/c43fb6eeb823a8dfa7860673751dfeca?fbclid=IwAR3xLf1i_ZFJ25fh891OFo-Vx-WYd7EjlVNvy13zc0OzAw1HoofmENx2tgk

Look at all that. I guess the Spain coach management to get his most appeased and able 11 out. 15 spoke out against him. Not going to bother checking how many still went to WC.

Yes, the players are able and won but if he also managed to win a world cup with a squad that hated him then kudos to that. 

Germany has won both men's and women's WC.

Interest contrast between Spain and Australia football associations in backing/not backing coach.

https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/fifa-frauen-wm/weltmeisterschaft-wm-aus-deutschland-kommentar-102.html

https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/fifa-frauen-wm/wm-australien-neuseeland-bilanz-fazit-100.html

The German view 

This fucking planet sometimes I swear...

Olga Carmona wins the world cup with a winning goal off her boot. Lifts her shirt and shows a message for the passing of her friend's mother. Lifts the world cup. Gets taken to the dressing room and is told her father just died. 

Brilliant football by Spain in the first half!

Their circulation football, possession game, took the overly physical Poms (against us too) and their awful American ref mate, out of the equation! It was a victory for football.

Credit to the Poms and Swedes playing gegen pressing and often succeeding against us, but England could not close down  space quickly enough and were faced to retreat to a half press in the mid stage of the first  half.  The Spanish dominated territory and possession.

One of the episodes of Spanish  passing sequences, about 8- 9 one and two touch passing  combinations in the build up in some tight areas on the left side from  defence to attack, was the best football I've ever seen played in the women's game!

To my disbelief, reading that 15 Spanish  players have refused to play for Spanish coach Vilda, and Spain recently winning the under 17 and under 20 World Cups, the days of the USA and their overly physical style of college football dominating women's football, are over. Their depth is phenomenal.

Vilda, despite being an unpopular player manager, has the team playing superb football. 

Oh no!

That is terrible news!

Hate to admit it, but we are some distance  behind the  first  three place getters - Spain, England and Sweden.

Did we have a lucky draw?

I heard last night that Japan beat Spain 4-0 in the group stages?

Elise KK suggested that Japan ( who I didn't see) were equal to Spain on a technical level. Nigeria after beating us, then only losing to the Poms on a pen shoot out, and Japan, may have arguably been better teams than us. Maybe Colombia too?

Yeah read that ... holy shit.

VAMOS ESPANA .... Huge congratulations and well deserved WC winners.... Very pretty football to watch at times... .

Well done to Spain, they were the better team but England played well too.

Watching how Spain played I'm not sure the Matildas were ready to match that level of football when their intent was on the transition, the way that Spain can play through the thirds is beautiful to watch and they would have probably carved us apart in the final if we made it.

Also a good lesson for youth development, Spain were also u17 and u20 world champs too so they have dominated in the last few years.

So the team that got smashed 4-0 in the tournament are "well-deserved WC winners".....I don't recall any WC winner ever getting battered in the tournament by that much.

What we have in this women's team is what Barca's, I mean Spain's men, did about 10 years ago until they go dismantled by coaches who knew how to press as a team and had clinical wingers and strikers to hit them on the turnover.  Japan already showed the way to beat them, and beat them well. 

England and Sweden let them play, as we saw Spanish women are just as good at falling over a blade of grass and wasting time as their male counterparts

Considering their top flight womens league was amateur is recently as a decade ago and clubs like Real Madrid only entered the picture 3-4 years ago, its remarkable what they have achieved in such a short time.

We played 6 games , won 3 ( one win on pens), and lost  3.

Yes Japan smashed Spain.  Japan are Spain's equal technically but they also know how to press as a team and play on the counter as well.

Yes with clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona who obviously lack the money and resources of clubs like Newcastle Jets, its a modern day miracle that Spain managed to win a WC.

We need to find out how they did it and implement that in Australia.

I wouldnt agree the physical mauling they got from both Sweden and England was a "blade of grace" Enzo.... As far as I saw from Spain's matches they never played dour defensive football.  Yes they are shaky on the defensive counter and agree they could have easily conceded if England played wider and in behind but ........ they did soak up pressure pretty well, get out of defence relatively easily despite overtly physical pressing and even you have to concede that their "touch" on the ball was sublime... That little #6 (no disrespect, her name escapes me) looked like she was playing FIFA on Xbox against a drunk opponent.....

To beat Spain you don't need to be physical. The opposition needs to press *as a team* and for 10-15 minute continuous periods.   Give them no time and space on the ball and they will turn it over.   The Japanese did it to them and then some.

I find Spain tika-taka shit boring to watch but each to his own.

Perhaps we can threaten to relegate under performing, cash strapped women's clubs like Newcastle Jets so that their footballing department (if they have one) can see the merit in winning a few matches a season rather than just "existing", and replacing them with actual football clubs with ambition? 

Weve had a decade head start and still refuse to "implement" anything other than Star Wars round.

I agree, but thats what England tried to do, be physical. That what England and Sweden have done pretty much all tournament.

OK, Im not a huge tika taka fan just for the sake of it either but the space it created in their midfield and to relieve the high press was the right call by Spain. I just admire the skill on display mate and think the better team won. 

P.S eat a bag of dicks England. hahahahahahaha 

We need money and we need to use it wisely.  There are two problems with that

1. we don't have money and

2. when we do have money, the people running the show don't use it wisely.

Spain were the best of the last 4.  Its undeniable.   The best in the World?  IMO the best don't get smashed 4-0 in the same tournament, and there was no bad luck in that either, they were dismantled...

What I find hard to believe is that Sweden and England manager's completely ignored what Japan did to Spain.  They were shown a template in the same tournament to follow FFS.

Agreed..... best solutions then based on such a good will tournament and promises of fed and state funding:

1. we don't have money - Hope we get as much if not more than the other codes for footballs' coffers
2. when we do have money, the people running the show don't use it wisely. - Dont let anyone "running the show" anywhere near the money.

Eh, thats the World Cup though mate... Wouldn't be the first or the last time the "best" side didnt go home with the chocolates.  

Only 3 players out of the original 15 failed to return to the squad.
Oh and in the original complaint iirc they stated they didn't have a problem with the coach himself.

I'm reading that as only 3 out of the 15 made the final squad.
11 of the 15 'put their hand up for selection'

In the 1954 WC in Switzerland Hungary beat West Germany 8-3 in the preliminary rounds but the Germans triumphed 3-2 against the Magyars in the final.