Dominican 2024: USA Whip England 3-0 to win the World U17 Women’s Bronze.

By

Eniola Olatunji 

The Yanky Babes of the USA on Sunday night at the Santo Domingo Stadium in the Dominican Republic beat the Lionesses of England 3-0 to claim the Bronze medal of the women’s world U17 cup.

Kennedy Fuller opened scoring in the 24th minute from a Barcenas assist while Fuller herself gave an assist to Central Defender, Ainsley McCammon to score the 2nd goal in the 72nd minute.

Barcenas was removed for Maddie Padelski in the 69th minute and Maddie got an assist from O’Steen to score the 3rd goal for the USA in the 90+2nd minute of play.

Ref Alejandra Quisbert hardly got her decisions overturned by VAR even when Kennedy Fuller bagged the only yellow card of the march in 45+2nd minute.

To get to the 3rd place match, USA lost to Spain 1-3; beat Columbia 2-0; blasted South Korea 5-0 but beat Nigeria 2-0 in the quarterfinal and lost to North Korea by a lone goal in the semifinal.

 England had beaten Kenya 2-0; walloped Mexico 4-0; lost to Korea 0-4 and won over Japan4-1 on penalties after 2-2 at full time in the quarterfinals before bowing to Spain 0-3 in the semifinal. 

Both USA and England are ‘old skool’ teams that got the podium finish only at the maiden edition in 2008 when USA now on her 5th appearances won the Silver Medal and England ended at the 4th position. 

The grand finale between Defending Champions and former Champions, North Korea will take place at 11pm which is a few hours from now..

Awards will be announced after the grand finals in various categories.

Next tournament will take place in Morocco, Africa next year with 24 teams participating instead of the current 16 and henceforth the competition will be annually instead of bi-annually.