In 1949, a man founded a women’s football club to help his disabled daughter. That team would go on to conquer the world and attain international stardom. Here’s a link to the 1957 match. Be safe, wash your hands. Follow the…
Women begin holding rogue World Cups in 1970. By the mid-80s, they are storming the gates of FIFA demanding that the women’s game be recognized. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation is on the verge of creating a Women’s F…
One hundred years ago, Australian women start playing football. Over the last century, they slowly and quietly, with little help from anyone, became one of the best sides in the world. Check out Never Say Die: The 100 Year, …
Germany was a dangerous place in the 1930s. The German economy was suffering under the Great Depression and German politics was becoming toxic. The Nazis are about to come to power. Men fought in the streets over politics. I…
“If you don’t have any collective memory, you cannot fight because you don’t have any history before you that could help you.” Marco Giani Marco Giani joins us from Milan to tell us more about GFC Milan, the Female Italian P…
In 1932, a group of high school girls play a soccer match in Italy. But this is Mussolini’s Italy. These young women are challenging not just sexism, but fascism. In so doing, they set off a series of remarkable events which…
Women’s football in France begins in 1917, and the French teams are a bit more organized than the English teams. What makes a club more than a team? Alice Milliat, pioneer of women’s sport and women’s soccer and the Women’s …
Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC was the most famous and successful women’s team in history. Founded in 1917, they continued to play after the Ban. For nearly another 50 years. I’m joined today by Gail Newsham, author of In a League o…
Why did the English Football Association ban women from playing? Coal. Some British women get the right to vote in 1918, but by 1921 female football players are stepping in to the political arena in a big way. And after the …
In this first episode of the Forgotten XI, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of Women's Football , 1863 and the first Association Soccer. And we'll take a look at the very first professional women's teams, all the w…
Women have been playing association football, or soccer, for 150 years, just as long as the men. But people just keep forgetting or worse, bury their stories for decades. Let's change that. Let's bring their stories back. Th…
