Argentina women's national football team
The Argentina women's national football team is the team that plays for Argentina in women's international football. They are called "La Albiceleste," which means "The White and Sky-Blues." In Argentina, women's football is not as popular as men's football. More people follow sports like field hockey and volleyball. Most of the women who played football in Argentina used to do it just for fun until 1991 when they started a women's football championship called the Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino. This was done to make women's football more popular in Argentina.
| Nickname(s) | La Albiceleste (The White and Sky-Blues) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | AFA | ||
| Confederation | CONMEBOL (South America) | ||
| Head coach | Germán Portanova | ||
| Captain | Vanina Correa | ||
| Most caps | Mariana Larroquette (75) | ||
| Top scorer | Mariana Larroquette (21)[1] | ||
| FIFA code | ARG | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 36  1 (7 December 2018)[2] | ||
| Highest | 27 (June 2008; September – December 2009) | ||
| Lowest | 38 (October 2003 – March 2004) | ||
| First international | |||
 Argentina 3–2 Chile  (Santiago, Chile; 3 December 1993) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
Argentina 12–0 Bolivia  (Uberlândia, Brazil; 12 January 1995) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
 Germany 11–0 Argentina  (Shanghai, China; 10 September 2007) | |||
| World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 4 (first in 2003) | ||
| Best result | Group stage (2003, 2007, 2019, 2023) | ||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2008) | ||
| Best result | Group stage 2008 | ||
| Sudamericano Femenino and Copa América Femenina | |||
| Appearances | 8 (first in 1995) | ||
| Best result | Champions (2006) | ||
Medal record | |||
When it comes to football matches between Argentina and Brazil, it's not the same as the men's matches. Brazil usually does better because they have a strong women's football league that has been around for a long time, while Argentina only started their professional women's league in 2019.[3]
References
change- ↑ MARIANA LARROQUETTE: “EL OBJETIVO ERA VOLVER AL MUNDIAL" on El Gráfico, 4 Jul 2023
- ↑ "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
- ↑ "Se firmó el acuerdo para que el fútbol femenino sea profesional en Argentina". infobae (in European Spanish). 16 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2021-11-14.