Fútnotes, Volume 6

The first international break of 2023 is done and dusted, and players returned to their clubs this past week.

México

México won the Revelations Cup, albeit on a yellow card tiebreak. While yes it was a friendly tournament and yes they won it on a technicality, they held their own against three teams that had already punched their tickets to the World Cup. (miseleccion.mx)

Mia Fishel and her agency The Marketing Jersey put out a cool video for Black History Month.

Paulina Chavira spoke with Andrea Rodebaugh about the new El Tri Femenil project. En Español. (Encanchadas Spotify)

At the end of the Tijuana vs. FC Juárez match, Angelina Hix and Miah Zuazua got into an altercation and the house DJ at Estadio Caliente had jokes… (sound on)

For their part, Hix and Zuazua both issued apologies to their teams and fans for letting the heat of the moment get the better of them.

Rest of the World

Portugal, Haïti, and Panamá qualified for the World Cup. All three will make their debut in the tournament in New Zealand, and with Haïti and Panamá making it, a total of six nations will represent Concacaf. (FIFA.com)

Wendie Renard has withdrawn from the France National Team, saying "I can no longer endorse the current system, far from the requirements required by the highest level. My face can hide the pain, but my heart hurts. I don't want to hurt anymore"

Renard was later joined by Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Kadidiatou Diani, Perle Morroni, and Griedge Mbock, and more could come as there have been long-standing criticisms of national team manager Corinne Diacre. Kim McCauley does a great job of going into this on her Patreon, which you should absolutely sign up for.

In a similar vein, Chile goalkeeper Christiane Endler called out her federation after Chile failed to qualify for the World Cup, saying “we left everything on the pitch, but we didn’t have more resources. It’s been said for a long time and has not been heard.”

Chinese FA makes women's teams mandatory for top-flight clubs (Reuters)

UPSL Women Begin Play in First-Ever Winter Season in California and Florida (UPSL.com)

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) inexplicably overturned the lifetime ban of Yves-Jean Bart (TAS-CAS.org) , the former President of the Haitian Football Federation after FIFA imposed it for “systematic sexual abuse against female football players between 2014 and 2020.” (SkySports.com)

Arrest warrant issued against for former India U17 women’s assistant coach Alex Ambrose in sexual misconduct case (ESPN India)

Júlia Belas Trindade conducted a great interview with Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler. (The Guardian)

Jon Arnold’s Getting CONCACAFed newsletter is always a must-read for me, but I really enjoyed his look at the USWNT using the SheBelieves Cup as a tune-up for the World Cup. (Getting CONCACAFed)

Two days after her eighteenth birthday, Colombian phenom Linda Caicedo signed for Real Madrid. (RealMadrid.com)

Cornthians played Ceará in a preseason friendly, donating 20% of the proceeds to “the regions affected by the heavy rains that hit the state of São Paulo,” (Corinthians.com) which has left at least 35 dead and Carnival festivities cancelled. (National Public Radio)

The line for the friendly between OL Reign and Club América was crazy.

Don’t ever let them tell you no one pays attention to women’s soccer.

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