FIFA wants stadium move to cash in on Matildas mania

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The Matildas were already facing the imaginable of a sold-out stadium for their historical World Cup opener, but are looking apt to treble that assemblage if a directive from supra goes through.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, unit from FIFA is apt to spot the opening crippled moved from Moore Park to Homebush.

With the crippled inactive six months away, tickets are sold retired connected the authoritative ticketing website, arsenic request for arguably the nation's biggest sporting lawsuit since the 2000 Olympics is done the roof.

Australia statesman their run connected July 20 against Ireland, earlier taking connected Nigeria successful Brisbane a week later, and past Canada successful Melbourne connected July 31.

But with FIFA wanting arsenic galore radical successful seats arsenic possible, determination is simply a beardown appetite to displacement the opening crippled from the 42,500-seater to the Olympic Stadium, which holds 83,500.

If that crippled were to merchantability retired - and there's nary crushed to fishy it wouldn't - it would go 1 of the biggest crowds successful the past of women's football.

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While it would autumn good abbreviated of the 1971 World Cup last betwixt hosts Mexico and Denmark, which filled the Azteca Stadium with 110,000, it would inactive beryllium an unthinkable accomplishment.

Barcelona some acceptable and past broke the grounds for nine shot successful the past year, with their Champions League 4th last and semi last games signaling 91,553 and 91,648 spectators, respectively.

"We privation each azygous variation to beryllium bigger, better, and astir palmy than the past - and it virtually is, due to the fact that it's inactive precise overmuch a increasing product," FIFA's caput of women's football, Sarai Bareman, told Wide World of Sports past year.

"In France we had 1.1 cardinal radical filling up stadiums and much than a cardinal viewers astir the world, and evidently adjacent twelvemonth we privation to smash each of those."

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