FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

[mattcity5]

I agree. Some national women's teams and club women's teams aren't very good. I can even concede that many aren't too good.

However, in the not too distant past girls/women playing football was frowned upon and even banned. It is still a "young" sport many places for women and girls. As time passes, I do believe the overall quality will improve. There will always be countries or clubs that are better than others but, on the whole, I suspect there will be greater parity.

Will women's football be exactly the same as men's football? Of course it won't be the same but it has it's merits. My daughter is a footballer. She's eleven. Watching girls her age and comparing them with boys her age, I've come away with the impression that girls playing are often much more technical than the boys. The boys seem to think speed and brute force will often get them by. Of course, this isn't always the case but it is something I've seen.

Additionally, the girls seem much less inclined to go to ground when fouled snd fight to stay on their feet and the ball. That said, my daughter was recently at a tournament in Spain. The Spanish girls seemed to go to ground extremely easily at the slightest touch. Perhaps that's due to cultural differences in football. I don't know.

I've got 2 girls playing grassroots football, one 13 one 10. Two main points.

1. The elder has played in girls teams against boys teams. The girls all work hard as a team but don't tend to have quite as much power or quite as many greedy wannabes. They are fairer too, lost one game due to a boy diving for a penalty. The girls got a penalty near the end to equalise and the boys were all shouting things at the taker and she missed.

2. In just 3 years between the two girls teams, there are so many more teams now and also the quality is better. While my elder daughter felt a bit like a rebel by starting football when she was about 8, my other one was seen as a late starter when she also started at that age. In her age group there are more divisions, more teams, more girls. Some very very good now. They aren't going to stop, they aren't going to go away. It may not result in big crowds at games, but the quality will continue to improve.

 

[mexico1970]

It's a constant eye-roll whenever I hear a team has got a nickname. Matildas, Lionesses. Is it just an anglo-saxon thing or does the foreign media attach names to their national women's teams - Les Grenouilleuses, Die Wurstchens, Las Sangrilitas, de kvinnnelige pilchardene? What's it all about? Is it to make them appear more 'cuddly'' or what?

The Africans say "HOLD MY BEER".

African national teams’ nicknames: expression of identities - Dailynewsegypt

The CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will be held from 22 June to 20 July and will include 24 teams for the first time in the history of the championship.

www.dailynewsegypt.com

 

[better dead than red]

I've got 2 girls playing grassroots football, one 13 one 10. Two main points.

1. The elder has played in girls teams against boys teams. The girls all work hard as a team but don't tend to have quite as much power or quite as many greedy wannabes. They are fairer too, lost one game due to a boy diving for a penalty. The girls got a penalty near the end to equalise and the boys were all shouting things at the taker and she missed.

2. In just 3 years between the two girls teams, there are so many more teams now and also the quality is better. While my elder daughter felt a bit like a rebel by starting football when she was about 8, my other one was seen as a late starter when she also started at that age. In her age group there are more divisions, more teams, more girls. Some very very good now. They aren't going to stop, they aren't going to go away. It may not result in big crowds at games, but the quality will continue to improve.

I agree with the working well as a team in general. The greedy wannabes are still there but fewer and further between. Perhaps it's down to the boys emulating professional players but some are ridiculous with their diving and holding their hands up as if to say "who me?" after completely clattering an opposition player.

I've come to look at the individuals who feel the need to constantly criticize women and girls playing football as the same type of individuals who decades ago thought "blacks have no place doing this," or "Asians shouldn't be trying to become this profession." At some point, they will be long gone

 

[bluealf]

So Millie Bright is getting to play despite not playing or proving her fitness since March.

Steph will be pleased to see things can change when you captain your country, oh!!!

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

So Millie Bright is getting to play despite not playing or proving her fitness since March.

Steph will be pleased to see things can change when you captain your country, oh!!!

Tbf @bluealf, she knows that ship has sailed with England , rightly or wrongly, and I suspect she has mentally moved on.

Hopefully she will get a chance as a pundit, and if she is anywhere near as good as Izzy, she will be very good.

Still have to get past the bias that currently exists and allows useless ones to persist however.

 

[bluealf]

Tbf @bluealf, she knows that ship has sailed with England , rightly or wrongly, and I suspect she has mentally moved on.

Hopefully she will get a chance as a pundit, and if she is anywhere near as good as Izzy, she will be very good.

Still have to get past the bias that currently exists and allows useless ones to persist however.

Yes, but I just meant the situation is very similar and the manager had no intention of bringing Steph back in and I bet she is silently seething.

She will make a great pundit, I still had hope she would replace Taylor as manager tbh

Izzy is a fantastic commentator and should be given all the airtime that useless fucker Aluko gets.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Yes, but I just meant the situation is very similar and the manager had no intention of bringing Steph back in and I bet she is silently seething.

She will make a great pundit, I still had hope she would replace Taylor as manager tbh

Izzy is a fantastic commentator and should be given all the airtime that useless fucker Aluko gets.

I understood what you meant and the hypocrisy in the treatments of the two players, and agree.

Tbh unless things change dramatically I hope Taylor is fucked off before too long, and anybody who properly understands team / player management/strategy replaces him.

 

[bluealf]

I agree with the working well as a team in general. The greedy wannabes are still there but fewer and further between. Perhaps it's down to the boys emulating professional players but some are ridiculous with their diving and holding their hands up as if to say "who me?" after completely clattering an opposition player.

I've come to look at the individuals who feel the need to constantly criticize women and girls playing football as the same type of individuals who decades ago thought "blacks have no place doing this," or "Asians shouldn't be trying to become this profession." At some point, they will be long gone

I hate reading on here and some poster comes on slags them off ' they can't play, utter shit' etc, why are you even in the woman's forum then, utterly weird behavior, just don't watch them.
I have not watched as much this last year tbh but not because I wasn't enjoying it, time constraints and bloody Taylor didn't help lol

 

[better dead than red]

Yes, but I just meant the situation is very similar and the manager had no intention of bringing Steph back in and I bet she is silently seething.

She will make a great pundit, I still had hope she would replace Taylor as manager tbh

Izzy is a fantastic commentator and should be given all the airtime that useless fucker Aluko gets.

I agree Izzy is great and Aluko is a useless fucker. If I recall, Aluko is extremely litigious. I imagine she's an absolute nightmare personality wise but those in charge are afraid to dismiss her for fear of being sued and called bigots.

I, obviously, have no idea the behind the scenes relationship with Steph and Wegeman but perhaps it's not just footballing reasons she's been left out. Maybe Steph told her to piss off. Her response, fine i will, you'll not be playing for England again whilst I'm in charge?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I agree. Some national women's teams and club women's teams aren't very good. I can even concede that many aren't too good.

However, in the not too distant past girls/women playing football was frowned upon and even banned. It is still a "young" sport many places for women and girls. As time passes, I do believe the overall quality will improve. There will always be countries or clubs that are better than others but, on the whole, I suspect there will be greater parity.

Will women's football be exactly the same as men's football? Of course it won't be the same but it has it's merits. My daughter is a footballer. She's eleven. Watching girls her age and comparing them with boys her age, I've come away with the impression that girls playing are often much more technical than the boys. The boys seem to think speed and brute force will often get them by. Of course, this isn't always the case but it is something I've seen.

Additionally, the girls seem much less inclined to go to ground when fouled snd fight to stay on their feet and the ball. That said, my daughter was recently at a tournament in Spain. The Spanish girls seemed to go to ground extremely easily at the slightest touch. Perhaps that's due to cultural differences in football. I don't know.

It has certainly improved since I've been watching. Some teams were definitely making up the numbers. Now they still make up the numbers to a certain extent but all of them have proved to be difficult. And the game still holds the odd upset - Dippers turned over CFC in the first game last season.