Jacinda Arden says she teared up watching New Zealand play at Women's World Cup

New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was moved to tears by the country’s women’s soccer team at this year’s World Cup.

Ardern told CNN’s Amanda Davies Monday that she cried while watching the opening match, where tournament co-hosts New Zealand beat Norway, securing the team’s first ever World Cup win. “That opening match, I felt slightly ridiculous because at the end of that game I started to cry and I did not stop crying for quite some time,” Ardern said. That July 20 game was a pivotal moment for the Football Ferns, as New Zealand’s women’s soccer team are known.

Ardern said she spoke to the players after the opening match about the bigger role they’re playing for women’s sports in the country. “I just said to them, you cannot know in this moment in time the impact that you’ve had for the game and for women and girls in sport in New Zealand. It’s just incredible,” Ardern said. “They’re part of a revolution and what a revolution it is.

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