France to host 2019 women’s World Cup

France will host the 2019 Women’s World Cup, FIFA announced Thursday.

The Women’s World Cup has become one of the great international sporting events. Yet it has never been played in the great nation of France.

It will be in 2019, however, FIFA–the international board which runs international football (soccer)–announced on Thursday.

FIFA held the announcement in Zurich, Switzerland on Thursday.

The finalist for host country for the great event was between France and South Korea.

South Korea recently held the Men’s World Cup in 2002, along with Japan. France has held two Men’s World Cup championships–first in 1938 and again in 1998.

Canada is the host country for this year’s Women’s World Cup.

But France will be a prominent nation in the sport over the next four years. France will host the men’s European Championships in 2016 and the under-20 women’s World Cup in 2018.

France, in being named as the host country for the 2019 event, becomes just the third European nation to host the Women’s World Cup. Sweden hosted in 1995 and Germany, the last one in 2011.

The French women’s team is expected to  fair quite well in the upcoming World Cup, even being considered as favorites by some experts.

That event will be played June 6 through July 5. There are currently no dates in place for France’s 2019 Women’s World Cup.

In the United States, the men’s World Cup became a huge event as the USA team was competitive in 2014. But it’s the women’s team, in its 1999 win–famous for Brandi Chastain’s walk-off penalty kick and strip show–which probably brought the game to a level prominence in the states.

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