SYDNEY — Spain defeated England 1-0 in the Women's World Cup final on Sunday (Aug 20), capping off a tournament that has broken attendance and TV records and raised hopes of a surge in interest for the women's game.
Co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, the ninth edition of the global showpiece event was the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.
"We suffered, it was a difficult match we always thought we were going to make it," Carmona, who was also named player of the match, told Spanish state broadcaster TVE. England and Spain were both making their first appearance at a Women's World Cup final, while England's wait for a first trophy since the men's tournament in 1966 goes on.
"Credit to the tournament, it's been phenomenal, the crowds that we've generated and the support that all teams have and it's been surreal, it's been so visible," she said.Australia's semi-final loss to England on Wednesday drew an average of 7.13 million viewers on the channels of local broadcaster Seven Network, the highest viewership ever recorded by research firm OzTAM, which launched in 2001.
Demand was weaker in New Zealand, whose team went out in the group stages. FIFA gave away thousands of tickets and some games attracted as few as 7,000 fans, although Football Ferns matches broke records for a soccer crowd in the country.Australia's players, who lost 2-0 in a third-place playoff match to Sweden on Saturday, will earn US$165,000 each in prize money for this tournament, more than 300 times the A$750 they received for a quarter-final appearance in 2015.
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