Fútnotes, Volume 53

It’s been a minute since I put one of these together. A lot has happened in the soccer world since my last installment and it’d be foolish to try and catch up everything that went on over the past three weeks. Instead I’m just focusing on the last one, but hopefully you are patronizing other people who cover women’s soccer

México

The Senior Women’s National Team released its final roster for the W Gold Cup at the end of the month. (FMF)

The U17s qualified for the U17 World Cup… (FMF)

But then lost to their northern neighbors in the championship game at the Concacaf qualifiers in Toluca. (FMF)

Liga MX Femenil has a new sponsor: Carl’s Jr. (Liga MX Femenil)

Fany Mayor became the first Tigres player to reach 100 goals. (Tigres Femenil via Twitter/X)

Mayor and Ceci Santiago celebrated appearing in 150 games for Tigres. (Tigres)

Querétaro’s Jazmine Enrigue, Mirelle Arciniega, and Claudia Anguiano also hit the 150 game mark. (Gallos Blancos via Twitter/X)

Licha Cervantes meanwhile became the first player to score six goals in a game, tied Mayor for the 2024 Clausura Golden Boot, and became the league’s leading goal scorer in one afternoon. (Chivas)

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Rest of the World

My friend André Carlisle of Diaspora United podcast (among many other things) now has a newsletter here on beehiiv. You can (and should!) sign up to beyond the vaudevillian cane here.

Another friend of mine Theo Lloyd-Hughes has a wonderful newsletter/site called Squad Depth and he too has left Substack, going to Ghost. You can (and should!) follow him as well.

Switzerland slashed funding for hosting the upcoming 2025 UEFA Women’s Championship from 15 million Swiss francs to just CHF 4 million. (SRF)

The United States Soccer Federation has sanctioned USL Super League as a Division 1 league, meaning the US now has two first division leagues (USL Super League and NWSL). (USL Super League)

I loved this in-depth look at the Philippines World Cup journey by Rich Laverty. (Women's Football Chronicles)

An appropriations bill passed in the Ohio house that included money for a new 12,000-13,000 seat stadium for women’s soccer in downtown Cleveland. (Axios)

Thanks in part to the success of the Lionesses, “there are now twice as many registered female football teams in England as there were seven years ago,” according to the BBC.

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

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