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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin They said it could not be done again, but just three weeks after breaking the 23-year-old world record for an attendance at a women's soccer match at Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, FC Barcelona Femení drew an even larger crowd of 91,648 to the same venue to once more create sporting history. The European champions once more put on an exhibition of soccer, again scoring five goals in the first leg of the UEFA EFA Women's Champions League semi-final against German league leaders VfL Wolfsburg. The new figure still falls short of two crowd figures at the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico when a reported 100,000 watched the Opening Game of the tournament which was surpassed by the estimated 110,000 who saw the final between hosts Mexico and Denmark, both games were played at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. However, as the competition did not fall within the jurisdiction of soccer's world … [Read more...] about Barcelona Femení Set Another Women’s World Record Attendance At Camp Nou

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The 23-year-old official world-record attendance for a women's soccer match was broken in Barcelona last night as a crowd of 91,553 was recorded at Camp Nou during their UEFA Women's Champions League match against Real Madrid. The figure eclipses the mark of 90,185 set during the 1999 Women's World Cup final played at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Only matches at the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup , which twice drew six-figure crowds of 100,000 for the Opening Match and 110,000 for the final, have ever attracted attendances for a women's sporting event in excess of tonight's at Camp Nou. That tournament was organized outside of the world governing body's (FIFA) jurisdiction by the Federation of Independent European Female Football (FIEFF). What is indisputable is that no women's club match has ever come close to this figure. Barcelona had played in front of the previous club record attendance of 60,739 away to Atlético de … [Read more...] about World-Record Crowd Of 91,553 Treated To Women’s Champions League Spectacle At Camp Nou

When a $70 million NFT sold at Christie’s last spring—a time before Bored Apes, Cool Cats, and Lazy Lions roamed the earth—some scoffed at the fortune spent on computer pixels that could be copy-pasted to your screen for free. But the lot wasn’t just a jpeg, it was the jpeg—and the money went to claim the original work, or the one we would call “authentic.” Take away that distinction, and yes, the file is worthless. advertisement advertisement It’s a high-stakes game that’s rife with fraud, abuse, and theft, and not even the biggest players are immune. But OpenSea, the planet’s largest NFT marketplace, might have a few tricks up its sleeve. This morning, it’s rolling out two products to safeguard the authenticity of collections on its platform. The first streamlines the verification of creator accounts, and the second banishes copymints, or spoofs of existing NFTs, using image recognition. Verified badges are among OpenSea’s so-called … [Read more...] about OpenSea is on a new quest to ban copymints, armed with AI, Twitter threads, and Discord chats