When the world of women’s soccer ventured to Australia and New Zealand, putting itself in time zones ahead of most of the globe, we were prepared for lots of mental math and wacky start times. These teams were playing tomorrow, for us, today.
While the 2023 Women’s World Cup is being played in the future in a literal sense relative to our clocks back in the U.S., it also started to seem like there was a break in the time-space continuum as the tournament unfolded. Has the future of women’s soccer somehow time-traveled to our TV screens to surprise us all?
For those who have been paying attention all along, this is no glitch in the matrix. Women’s soccer has not flipped upside down since going Down Under. Countries around the world have finally started investing in a real way, and while there is still progress to be made, the future of the sport is here. And now we get to watch it unfold in a beautifully chaotic way.
