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FIFA threatens Europe with Women’s World Cup broadcast blackout

The World Cup is being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20 [File: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo]

Europe’s top football nations face a broadcast blackout for this year’s Women’s World Cup unless media can improve on their “disappointing” offers for the rights, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has said.

Offers from the “Big 5” European countries – England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France – were not acceptable to football’s world governing body and a “slap in the face” of the players and “all women worldwide”, Infantino said late on Monday.

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