The official technical report into this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup™ highlights a number of marked improvements in the women’s game and suggests that the competitive gap has become narrower than ever.
Japan’s success at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011™ has been recognised with the presentation of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Champions Badge.
Japan honoured its FIFA Women's World Cup™-winning football team as heroes, with the Prime Minister of the country saying that they had given "given courage ... to all of the people" recovering from the recent earthquake tragedy.
The victorious Japan team which claimed their inaugural FIFA Women's World crown at Germany 2011, will be honoured by the Japanese government with the "People's Honour Award" for their role in helping restore the nations spirits.
Japan's national women's league has received a boost in supporters following the nation's FIFA Women's World Cup victory, with almost 18,000 attending to see national captain Homare Sawa's club INAC Kobe.
The FIFA Women's World Cup 2011™ in Germany took the feminine side of the world’s most popular sport to a whole new level and will remain forever in the memory.