Courtesy of The New Yorker, a look at the World Cup and the frustrating, inspiring State of Women’s soccer where - despite mistreatment, unequal pay, and discrimination - there is a great feeling of solidarity, and a sense of [...]
On July 14, Climate Focus and Planet League will launch a special Women’s World Cup update to the Football for Forests (F4F) app. F4F harnesses the passion of the world’s football fan community to restore tropical [...]
Via BBC Sport, a report on the Afghanistan women's soccer team which is no longer recognised by their country or FIFA:
Some players are doing last-minute boot checks, others putting on their shin guards. One is adjusting her [...]
July
23,
2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on challenge faced by women in football to join the executive level of clubs:
Andreea Koenig, a director of French football club Racing Club de Lens, says often in her job she walks [...]
Via Global Sport Matters, an article on how the past decade has seen unprecedented institutional gains for pregnant and parenting women athletes, yet a persistent maternal health crisis, the fight for bodily autonomy, and the [...]
July
22,
2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how Megan Rapinoe’s incandescent career changed more than women’s soccer:
The tattoo, petite and scripted in cursive, reads: “Nature ran her course.” Megan Rapinoe had the [...]