HISTORY OF FEMALE FUTBOL

HISTORY

Women's football is far from being a current trend but its practice goes back to the 19th century: Glasgow, Scotland, welcomed what is considered the first game of modern football between women, between two local clubs, in 1892.

Two years later, in 1894, women's rights activist Nettie Honeyball pushed for the creation of a club, the British Ladies Football Club, as a symbol of the fight against the exclusion of women from a sport that had been seen only as men.

In World War I and World War II there was a qualitative and quantitative leap forward in women's football. The absence of the displaced men in the front helped to a greater presence of the woman in the society and also in the more ludic aspects.

From the British Isles, women's football was spreading throughout the world, first of the hand of the emigration and soon thanks to the masculine soccer, that helped to popularize the sport worldwide.

In 1970 an international tournament took place, an unofficial World Cup, disputed in Italy and with Denmark like champion.

Mexico hosted in 1971 another similar competition, won by the local players, but the tournament did not have continuity. The momentum of Brazil's Joao Havelange, then president of FIFA, was decisive for the 1991 World Cup, already official, held every 4 years and in China as the first venue. Since then they have played six World Cups, with Germany and United States leading the list, with two titles each, and Norway and Japan with one.

The trend towards professionalism was driven by the creation of important national championships in countries such as the United States, Japan, Sweden or Germany, and the emergence of stars such as the American Mia Hamm, the Chinese Sun Wen, the German Birgit Prinz or the Brazilian Marta . The latter has been the winner of the award five consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010).

The International Olympic Committee included women's football in its program at the Atlanta-1996 Games and FIFA instigated a prize, equivalent to the FIFA World Player's men's title since 1991.

Spain also has important clubs and selections and some international stars. Until October 1980 was not recognized by the Federation and the first unofficial championship, the Queen Sofia Cup, now Queen's Cup started in 1982. The League began in the 1988/89 season.

Spanish footballer Veronica Boquete, currently the Tyreso FF player in the Swedish women's league, was named the best player in the North American football league in 2012 and is considered one of the great referents in the national women's category,

The front of the Tyreso FF militated in Espanyol between 2008 and 2011, in the American League played in Buffalo Flash and Chicago Red Stars in 2010. After returning to Barcelona, ​​returned to contest the final of the "Women's Proffesional Soccer" In U.S.A. With the Philadelphia Independence jersey. From there he left for Russia, where he militated in the Energy Voronezh before to settle in Sweden.

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