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An unrelated shooting in Auckland couldn’t dampen the tournament’s message of unity or a host victory in the opening match.

Shooting took place near the hotel of the Norwegian team hours before opening match

New Zealand shocked the World Cup, the crowd and the nation - everyone but themselves - in pulling off a historic upset win over Norway in the tournament opener in Auckland.

FIFA insist the Women’s World Cup will go ahead safely despite a deadly shooting in Auckland hours before the opening match in the city on Thursday.

Both major party leaders put politics to the side as they responded to the shooting on Auckland’s Queen Street

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Much has been made of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s “old guard” at this World Cup, and for good reason.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Ceillhe Sperath's ancestors arrived in New Zealand nearly two centuries before Christopher Columbus sent off for the New World. Yet for much of the past two centuries the Māori, the descendants of those early Polynesian explorers, have had to fight for the rights, recognition and respect…

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Ali Riley acknowledges she cries all the time. Watching TV, reading a book, listening to an inspiring story; any and all of those can start the tears flowing.

New Zealand kicked off the tournament with their first win at a Women’s World Cup, Hannah Wilkinson’s goal just after half-time sinking Norway

The opening match of the Women's World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand went ahead as planned Thursday after a shooting hours earlier near the Norwegian team’s hotel left three people dead and six injured.

Crystal Dunn has said that players had to “compartmentalise everything” on Thursday after a central Auckland shooting left three dead