USWNT: The U.S. Is Predicted to Win the World Cup
19.07.2023 - 14:01
/ glamour.com
doesn’t kick off for a couple of days (July 20, in Australia and New Zealand), but many are already feeling confident that the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) has that coveted in the bag—not just because of the team’s track record, of incredible talent (hello, ) or how much but because one highly reliable predictor has just pointed in Team USA’s favor.Before each World Cup, the video game company runs to attempt to forecast the winner of soccer’s most important tournament—and for the past four go-rounds, that prediction has proven correct.
Predicting World Cup winners isn’t the only area in which EA Sports FIFA’s high-tech fortune-telling has proven eerily accurate. Before the men’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar last winter, its virtual version of the matches also allowed the company to predict that Lionel Messi would take home the Golden Ball for being the tournament MVP.
This, very memorably, . Arriving at these predictions involves a method and a bit of madness: To predict the winner of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the company had to simulate all 64 of the tournament’s scheduled matches.
And the results are in: EA Sports foresees the U.S. facing off with Germany in the final game and then winning it 4-2, once again taking home the title of World Cup champions.That’s a prediction we’re obviously on board with, but we don’t need a high-tech video game simulation to give us confidence that the USWNT will dominate its upcoming matches—we can just look at real life.
The team has won its last two World Cups, in 2015 and 2019, and holds four titles in total. Not to mention, we’ve come to expect nothing less than fearless pursuit of victory from the team that in 2019 over pay discrimination, and after a drawn-out faceoff, in
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