Emerging Sports Writer Program participant Lauren McIntosh shares the unusual, yet valid avenue through which she was exposed to, and grew to love, women’s sport. Do you remember the first time you laced up your ballet slippers? Passed a netball? Witnessed someone execute that impossible kick? For me I remember all three. From being influenced …
Not content to leave the change-making to the elite level, the NSFA’s Female Football Plan will ensure the best possible experience for women and girls. A commitment to build the participation of girls and women and to grow the number of female coaches are just some of the goals of the Northern Suburbs Football Association’s Female …
Ever since Australia and New Zealand secured the 2023 Women’s World Cup hosting rights, there has been a flurry of Matildas signing with European clubs.
By Angela Christian-Wilkes In the wee hours of Friday morning, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced that Australia and New Zealand will host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Emotions are still running high. But in the months leading up to the announcement, the bid occupied a grey and shapeless space in my mind—a football fog, …
A few weeks ago, we published a review of Marion Stell and Heather Reid’s Women In Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s by Professor Jean Williams. This week, we catch up with the authors Marion Stell and Heather Reid to discuss just why that 1979 series is so important. In the early hours of …