Prior to the 2015 World Cup, Abby Wambach headed a discrimination lawsuit with other global soccer stars including Marta of Brazil and Homare Sawa of Japan. This battle to eliminate its use in major women’s games heightened around the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada; during this tournament, england shirt the US played eight of their ten games on artificial turf. But as has been proven so many times already this tournament, underdogs Sweden pulled off an upset as Emil Forsberg’s goal saw off the Swiss and booked their place in the quarter-finals for the first time since 1994. Having pushed Germany close and thrashed Mexico, Sweden have already proven to be a side not to be underestimated.