By Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan

This is the 1st in-depth worldwide examine of women's soccer internationally. This assortment considers women's soccer, in fifteen international locations worldwide, in an international context, and analyzes its growth, demanding situations and difficulties it has faced.

It exhibits how women's soccer has made an important contribution to the emancipation of women's soccer in lots of international locations. It additionally strains the evolution of women's soccer in face of resistance, rejection and prejudice and describes girls footballer's fight for equivalent rights in a male ruled soccer international.

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Certainly the media, especially daily newspapers, began to take SOCCER, WOMEN, SEXUAL LIBERATION 33 notice. Often called the ‘golden age’ of women’s sport, it was a time when popular team sports like basketball, ice hockey and softball became sufficiently organized to hold provincial and Dominion championships; when the best athletes, especially in track and field, began to compete internationally and eventually at the Olympic Games; when women leaders and administrators took control of women’s sport, claiming they knew what was best for girls and women, although the advice of men would still be needed.

26–7, 179–80, 270–71. WUSA Communications Department, Atlanta, Georgia, WUSA 2002 Official Media Guide, pp. 6, 8. , p. 21. 30 WOMEN’S SOCCER IN THE UNITED STATES 32. See Markovits and Hellerman, Offside, pp. 180–81; and WUSA 2002 Official Media Guide, p. 32. Nineteen of the 20 players from the Team USA’s 1999 World Cup roster play in the WUSA. Michelle Akers retired soon after the 1999 tournament, but was still awarded a financial stake in the league. 33. Paul Dodson, WUSA Manager of Sports Communications, personal communication (19 Nov.

It did so again briefly during the Sydney Olympics in 2000, when Team USA lost the gold-medal game to Norway, 3–2, in what arguably was the best-played and most exciting match in the history of women’s soccer to date. Significantly, the success of the US national team has directly led to the establishment of the first venue for routinized professional women’s soccer, the Women’s United Soccer Association (see below). In retrospect, it can be said that the success of Team USA on the field and the success of the 1999 World Cup in garnering the interest and attention of the American public and media put women’s soccer ‘on the map’, carving out a recognizable niche (though one still quite diminutive in comparison to the Big Three and One-half) in the cultural sports space of the United States.

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