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10MA TOPICS! [JAPAN FA] [FIFA Women's World Cup] The Lyon connection: World Cup reunion for Bronze and Kumagai

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June 18, 2019

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Paris: They are colleagues at club level in the team that dominates European women's football, but Saki Kumagai and Lucy Bronze will be coming up against one another at a second consecutive FIFA Women's World Cup when Japan and England clash on Wednesday.

In 2015, it was Kumagai's Japan who emerged victorious in the semi-finals in Canada, a stoppage-time Laura Bassett own goal giving them a 2-1 win over Bronze's England on their way to a 5-2 defeat in the final against the United States.

Prior to that, it was England who triumphed 2-0 in the 2011 group stage in Germany, but on that occasion Japan went on to win the trophy while England went out in the quarter-finals.

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