The Importance of Women in Football

There are inequalities in what the academy system looks like in football today. Boys often join an academy at the age of eight or nine and have a strong focus on developing them as an athlete. On the other hand you have young females who might play at a very amateur sort of style set up for many years before they enter the more elite side of the game. Yet somehow women are expected to play for the love of it and men are expected to be able to earn astronomical salaries. It just doesn't add up. We've seen FIFA give away the rights to the women's World Cup like a free add-in to the men's World Cup rights over decades now. For example if the Women