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Manchester City defender Lucy Bronze has been named as the FIFA Women's Player of the Year at the annual Best Awards. The England star beat Chelsea's world-record signing Pernille Harder and Wendie Renard of France to the award.

"What a surprise, to even be nominated alongside the two other players, they are both incredible players and outstanding human beings well," Bronze said....

Australia and New Zealand survived a stronger than expected challenge from Colombia to be awarded the right to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Following the withdrawal of Brazil and Japan, the joint southern hemisphere bid was the clear favourite having scored highly in the technical reports.

But there was surprise support for Colombia from the Football Association and...

Brazil have withdrawn their bid to host the 2023 Women's World Cup.

The country, which staged the men's tournament in 2016, will instead support the bid of fellow South Americans, Colombia.

Japan and a joint bid from Australia and New Zealand are the other contenders. FIFA will make a final decision on who will host the tournament on 25 June.

The Brazilian Football...