Ten years on from first captaining the Sweden national team, Caroline Seger is preparing for what will be her fourth FIFA Women’s World Cup™, a tournament in which she has not exactly enjoyed the best of luck. No wonder then that she is looking forward to France 2019 with enthusiasm and considerable ambition.

"Expectations are very high. I think we’re a very good team, but not yet as good as we can become." A fourth place finish at the recent Algarve Cup would indeed suggest that Sweden are on a learning curve, but the veteran midfielder is not rushing to judgement on her team’s performances there. "We racked up the goals against Switzerland when everyone was saying we weren’t scoring enough. Then after losing to Portugal, people were saying we didn’t know how to defend well... It’ll always be like that. However, we have confidence in our football. We just need to keep working on what our coaching staff tell us, both in defence and attack, and continue to bolster our self-confidence."

The 34-year-old midfielder offers us thoughtful analysis on the state of the Swedish national team ahead of the big event in France.

Some trailblazers inspire a generation. There is no doubt that Patrizia Panico has moved thousands of youngsters to recreate her goals – more than a hundred of which she scored for her country’s national team – in playgrounds across her native Italy.

Now, she is blazing a fresh trail, as coach of the Italian men’s U-15 national side, one of very few women’s coaches working in an international set-up in the men’s game.

With Italy preparing to head to their first FIFA Women’s World Cup™ since USA 1999, FIFA.com sat down with Panico to cast her mind back to that tournament, where she – naturally - scored twice. We also looked ahead to Gli Azzurri’s chances at France 2019 and discussed her current role.

Just over a year ago, Phil Neville sat in a press conference to announce his first managerial role, and he was greeted by a packed room of journalists.

Scepticism was rife. Many tough questions asked. Among them: Why had Neville, with no history in the women’s game, taken one of the top jobs in the female iteration of the globe’s most popular sport?

A relaxed Neville has a determined steel in his eye when discussing this and other subjects at the English national teams’ superlative training centre in an idyllic English countryside setting.

Throughout an in-depth and wide-ranging chat, the former England and Manchester United man touches on those early doubts, lessons learned from his playing days and the thing that is dominating his mind at the moment: the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™.