 Omio Voucher for Bus Tickets and the Omio Discount for Train Tickets bookings to save as much as possible in such tight travel schedules created due to the fans rushing for this tournament.
The qualification of the National Teams from Africa is done on the basis of the 2018 CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. This tournament was held last year in between the month of November and ended on the 1st of December. This cup was hosted by Ghana. Out of the 8 teams that participated in this tournament, the top three teams in the points table were to be qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019. These three teams were Nigeria, South Africa and Cameroon. The winner of the tournament was Nigeria which won the cup for the third time in a row and it has now won 11 African Cups in total.
There are 5 berths for the Women’s National Teams from Asia which is decided from the Asian Women’s Cup tournament rankings of the team. The AFC Asian Women’s Cup was held last year in Jordan. Out of all the participating nations, China, Thailand, Australia and Japan were able to reach the Semi-Final stage of the tournament and therefore got their place booked in the Women’s World Cup this year. The fifth berth for the World Cup was decided from a qualification match for the fifth spot, which was eventually won by the Korea Republic to confirm their place in this World Cup.
Europe is one of the biggest hubs of Football and has the craziest following for the game of Football. The process of qualification of teams from Europe is a complex one that involved various Women’s World Cup 2019 qualifying rounds. The first stage is the qualifying round that filters 35 teams out of all the National Teams participating for the berth in World Cup. Then, these 35 teams were categorized into 7 different groups with 5 teams in each group. The winners of these groups confirmed their berth in the cup finals, which are Italy, Spain, England, Norway, Scotland and Sweden. France was already qualified after being chosen as the host nation. The last team to qualify as 'Netherlands' after defeating Denmark in the qualifiers held to reserve the last berth in the Women’s World Cup for the European region.
There are 3 berths for the National Teams from North America to qualify and fight for the World Cup. The USA, Canada and Jamaica won their tickets to France 2019 at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship, which took place between 4 and 17 October 2018 in the USA. Fourth-placed Panama was defeated by Argentina in the intercontinental play-off in November 2018.
Hosts Fiji advanced from the preliminary round (25-31 August) to join the eight-nation field for the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup. New Zealand won the tournament held between 18 November - 1 December 2018 in New Caledonia to qualify for France 2019.
In the seven prior World Cups, France was never pegged as a tourney favourite. Yet a seasoned squad stacked with quality players and a country still reeling from World Cup glory has consolidated its odds. Even if the country wasn’t playing host to the 2019 edition of the World Cup, they’d still be considered favourites. Despite the recent retirement of arguably the best France player of all time, Louisa Nécib Cadamuro, France has a full stock of quality players piled one after the other to represent their country. Only France can boast having two players – Wendie Renard and Amandine Henry – on the final shortlist of 2018’s Best FIFA Women’s Player Award. The squad France will bring to next summer’s Women’s World Cup will be mostly comprised of players that have played in multiple major tournaments and are now entering the prime of their careers. It should also be mentioned that France has one of the best women’s domestic leagues in the world and that Lyon, a side that is nearly a mirror reflection of their national team, it has also won the domestic title and the most last UEFA Champion’s League title.
Typically countries that compete well are populous and have a winning tradition. Yet with only 17 million citizens and four World Cup games to its name, the Netherlands has neither. The women’s Dutch side announced itself in world football after winning Euro 2017. On their road to victory, they swept aside Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and England countries with far greater footballing success than their own. Winning such a competitive tournament means that Holland can play with the greats. Leading their squad is the 25-year-old Barcelona midfielder, Lieke Martens. She was an unknown commodity a few years back but has burst onto the scene as of recent after winning the UEFA Women’s Players of the Year 2016-17 and The Best FIFA Women’s The player in 2017 awards. With a current world ranking of 9th position, and fans eager to compensate for the men’s team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, Holland has all the pieces in place to make a deep run in next year’s tournament.
Brazil’s FA is on a destructive path as the players from the national team penned an open letter to their FA complaining about the same. The list of grievances included the unwarranted firing of the team’s first-ever female coach, lack of leadership opportunities offered to women within the organization, and a general lack of respect. As a result of the aforementioned injustices, stalwarts chose to retire. Brazil may be a very popular football team for Men’s football, but sadly there is a history of neglect female in the field of sports, football being no exception to it. To give a brief overview of the condition which women’s football suffered in the country, you can simply see it from the ban imposed on women football till the year 1979. Brazil still managed to go against the run of the mill and gave football some of the best female sports athletes in the world overcoming such a tragic condition faced by the women football players for years. In such chaotic times, Brazil has still managed results, finishing first in the 2018 Copa America and fourth in the Olympics. Yet with the squad seemingly ready to implode, the resentment the women’s team has for its FA may come to a boil at the 2019 World Cup. These politically motivated and misogynist actions of Brazil’s FA can shatter their Women's division to the dust in times when all other nations are keenly investing and supporting their women’s national teams for the encouragement of female athletes..The New New Thing
January 17, 2011 at 9:40 pm Terence Craig 1 comment
Before we dive back into geekier topics, I highly recommend that you click on this image and buy Lewis’ book. It is a great distillation of the valley’s culture during the Internet bubble.
In my last post, I talked about how Salesforce.com had bought back the venerable timesharing model by applying the new architectural model of multi-tenancy. Multi-tenancy made timesharing viable for the Internet era.
But as in all things tech, multi-tenancy is now being by-passed by the next “New New Thing” (NNT for short). As is often the case where new technology is concerned, the NNT doesn’t have a catchy name yet, but it is a clearly superior solution to an existing problem.
Most of the entrenched legacy vendors (Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft, etc.) who tried to climb on the multi-tenancy bandwagon found it impossible to move their enterprise apps to the cloud and keep a reasonable level of features. Instead, they focused on creating a large amount of FUD around security and customization. In general, the fears they created as well as the high cost of switching was enough to keep most of their larger customers in the on-premise fold.
For next generation SaaS players, including PatternBuilders, multi-tenancy was less alluring—not because of the “tyranny of the installed base,” but because we now have access to architectural components that solve the problems multi-tenancy addressed without the complexity. Tools such as:
- Platform as a service (PaaS), which is available from a variety of vendors including Rackspace, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
- Cheap open source software.
- Metadata driven architectures for easy maintenance and customization.
- Virtualization for easy deployment and fair allocation of resources.
In aggregate, these technologies solve the same problems that multi-tenancy architectures were created to address while offering better security, customization, and more reliable performance. Together, this makes the added architectural complexity of multi-tenancy hard to justify. In fact, our bet is that multi-tenancy as an architectural approach will soon be considered obsolete. I will dive into the details of how PatternBuilders uses these technologies for our flavor of SaaS in another post.
More importantly, these technologies allow PatternBuilders to support both traditional enterprise deployment (on premise) and the hosted/SaaS/cloud deployment model – pick your buzzword– with very little additional effort. We made the decision to support both models because it would provide a broader user base and was easy to do. The fact is the cloud, multi-tenancy or not, is just not appropriate (and/or acceptable) for some customers’ uses. The reasons vary, depending on industry, but we don’t see those barriers to adoption going away in the short term.
What’s your bet? Do you think multi-tenancy is on the way out? Do you think on-premise applications will soon be as extinct as the Dodo bird? Let us know what you think!
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