It’s not a monopoly, not yet at least.
The United States have laid claim to successive Women’s World Cups, prying the 2015 trophy from Japan before doing away with Sarina Wiegman’s Netherlands in 2019.
The ultimate acid test, however, lies less than 70 days away. Should Alex Morgan and co. lay claim once more to the trophy that has become synonymous with them in the last decade, they’ll become the first team – men’s or women’s – to bring home three successive World Cup titles.
