Top ten women’s football teams US, Canada, Germany and Brazil have all been eliminated from the 2023 Women’s World Cup before the quarter-finals, and underdogs Jamaica and Morocco won big early on. In a landmark deal in February 2022, the US women’s team finally received pay parity after a year’s long battle with the US Soccer Federation. In contrast, a Jamaica team member’s mother had to start a GoFundMe campaign in order for the Jamaican team to be able to prepare for this year’s World Cup. Now, the big question is: what’s behind these wins and losses, and does funding make a difference?

In this episode: 

• Shireen Ahmed (@_shireenahmed_), Senior Contributor for CBC Sports
• Aziza Nait Sibaha (@AzizaNaitSibaha), TV presenter & journalist for France24
• Chinyelu Asher (@ChinyeluAsher), Jamaican footballer

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Fahrinisa Campana with Amy Waters and our host Malika Bilal. Khaled Soltan and Zaina Badr fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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