USWNT: The U.S. Is Predicted to Win the World Cup
glamour.comdoesn’t kick off for a couple of days (July 20, in Australia and New Zealand), but many are already feeling confident that the U.S.
Women’s National Team (USWNT) has that coveted in the bag—not just because of the team’s track record, of incredible talent (hello, ) or how much but because one highly reliable predictor has just pointed in Team USA’s favor.Before each World Cup, the video game company runs to attempt to forecast the winner of soccer’s most important tournament—and for the past four go-rounds, that prediction has proven correct.
Predicting World Cup winners isn’t the only area in which EA Sports FIFA’s high-tech fortune-telling has proven eerily accurate.
Before the men’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar last winter, its virtual version of the matches also allowed the company to predict that Lionel Messi would take home the Golden Ball for being the tournament MVP.
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