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and japan have qualified ? taking down norway 3?1. as you can see, much to the delight of fans who travelled to new zealand to watch the game. and in just a few hours, defending champions the us women s national soccer team will return to the pitch against sweden. a short time ago, i spoke to sports reporter at dazn roberto rojas about the latest matches. roberto, welcome back to the programme. great to have you here. i want to start off by talking about this upcoming match between the us and sweden. some people have pointed out this has become somewhat of a tradition now in the world cup. what can we expect from that match? both the united states and sweden will face each otherand, personally, i think this is where the americans come as underdogs, which is surprising enough, given how dominant they have been on the world stage for so many years. i think the way they played into the group stage, not exactly convincing from a defending world champion, whereas sweden conceded only one go
real huge underdogs. it feels like anyone could beat anyone. you saw one of the strongest teams ever, germany, get eliminated in the group stage. canada, the reigning olympic gold medallists, they were eliminated as well. so i think it s a huge thing for african football and world football as a whole to see all these teams develop and get much better as the years go on. i think it willjust get even better with more teams evolving and obviously coming in to disrupt the party of the reigning powers that have always dominated in women s football. sports reporter roberto rojas, thank you so much, as always. it should be a lot of fun, and we will get ready for that match between the us and sweden. thanks for coming on the programme. my pleasure, thank you. plenty more news at the top of the hour. plenty more news at the top of the hour.
women are notjust playing in their home countries but all around the world, be it united states or a european country. it demonstrates there are no real underdogs it feels like anyone could beat anyone. you saw germany, one of the strongest teams ever, get eliminated at the group stage, canada were eliminated as well. it is a huge thing for african football and world football as a whole to see all these teams develop and get much better as years go on. it is just going to get better with more teams evolving and, obviously, going in to disrupt the party of the reigning powers that have always been dominating in woman s football. roberto rojas, sports reporter at dazn, thank you so much as always. it should be a lot of fun and we will be getting ready for that us sweden match coming up as well. thank you for coming on the programme. my pleasure, thank you. stay with us here on bbc news. that s all from us here in washington. we leave you with these live pictures of london as we hand of
results to be delayed. the announcement fuelled opposition fears that a caretaker administration could be set up to oversee the vote, causing the polling day to be pushed back by months. opposition leader imran khan says this is the latest move by prime minister shahbaz sharif to avoid facing a general election. let s turn to the women s world cup now where, for the first time, three african countries have made it to the group of 16 stage of the tournament. morocco, nigeria and south africa have all qualified ? this has not happened before in a men s or women s world cup. spain has also made it through, after thrashing switzerland 5 1. and japan have also qualified, taking down norway 3?1. as you can see, much to the delight of fans who travelled to new zealand to watch the game. defending champions the us women s national soccer team will return to the pitch to defend their title in just a few hours. earlier, i spoke to roberto