While the FIFA Women's World Cup is supposed to be a competition between the best soccer teams in the world, some matches are closer than others. For instance, in the most recent World Cup, the Netherlands team left Vietnam scoreless after seven goals. Even worse, in the 2015 World Cup, Germany—Ivory Coast (10–0) and Switzerland—Ecuador (10–1) were clear blowouts.
. He co-authored the paper with Elizabeth Palazzolo BA, a former undergraduate research assistant.Understanding the qualification requirements and tournament stages of the Women's World Cup is critical to interpreting the findings of Lapré's research. The tournament recognizes six continental confederations based on geography: North and Central America , South America , Europe , Africa , Asia , and Oceania .
This lack of fair competition continues into the World Cup itself. Once teams make it to the tournament, they compete in two stages: the group stage and the knockout stage. In the initial group stage, teams are sorted into groups of 4, then play the other three teams round-robin style; the best teams from each group advance to the knockout stage.
"For a fair tournament, it is imperative that groups are of similar strength," Lapré explained."If one group has much stronger teams than another group, it will be much harder to advance from the stronger group compared to the weaker group. Such a scenario is considered unfair.
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