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 [...]
July
22,
2023
Via The Economist, a report that football is at last accepting that players can have both children and careers:
The current generation of American women footballers have already struck one significant blow for equality. In [...]
July
21,
2023
The US Women’s National Team and Common Goal have united to ensure mental health conversations can become a focus in soccer ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
On the eve of the tournament, and led by defender Naomi [...]