Female soccer

Since ever, women have fought to obtain the same rights, opportunities and benefits like men. It hasn’t been easy, but women have an extraordinary potential to obtain whatever they want. Football has been one example of that.

Female soccer exists too many years ago, but it hadn’t been recognized.  There are records of this sport played by women in “Han dynasty” which played an ancient version of the game called “Tsu Chu”, the first female football match was developed  in Scotland, also a women rights’ defender,  Nettie Honeyball, founded the first sport club called  British Ladies Football Club, because she wanted to demonstrate that women could participate  and become emancipated just like men could. The fist world war also was a fact that influenced female soccer, because men must go to fight and women must take care of the factories, and many of them had their own football’s team. But recent after the Men World Cup of 1966 the F.A. decided to incorporate women soccer.

These days female soccer is a popular sport, played by too many women around the world. There are women’s league, female’s teams, female´s clubs and others, in all derivates of football: baby football, beach football, football of 7 (little football), etc.

The mass of the female football has allowed the development of the Female World Cup, been the first an extra-official tournament in Italy where the winner was Denmark. But it wasn’t until 1991, organized by Chine and won by EEUU, when the Female World Cup was recognized by the FIFA.

In Chile happens the same that in the whole world. I played football in my school and we participate in a lot of school’s tournament because people are taking advantage of this phenomenon.

Women have improved too much that there are women that are so much better than some men. Maybe one day, in a near future, all women will be better that men.