| Who says playing soccer is only for men? Well, you | | | | had little effect on women at first however soon |
| must be wrong since lots of women are also | | | | soccer was seen as something that was socially |
| engaging to this particular sport nowadays. There are | | | | acceptable for women players to play. In Scotland, |
| also a number of soccer parents-- even soccer | | | | the first recorded and official soccer game for |
| mom-- who send their players to soccer training. | | | | women was in 1892 and in England 1895. |
| They even send their girls to this healthy sport | | | | In 1894 a woman named Nettie Honeyball established |
| activities. | | | | the women's football league in England. It was an |
| Anybody who thinks that women's soccer is a new | | | | effort to emancipate women from men. She had |
| idea could not be more wrong. Women have been | | | | very clear views and worked to recognize women |
| playing this particular sport for as long as it has | | | | from the idea that they were nothing but useless |
| existed. Long before Premiership leagues and cup | | | | things for men to look at. The women's football |
| contests were established, women were thought to | | | | league was frowned upon but continued on even in |
| have played the sport in some of the most ancient | | | | the absence of any support from British football |
| of civilizations-- as early as during that time. There is | | | | associations. |
| evidence that a version of football was played by | | | | Women's football continued to grow in popularity. As |
| women in the Han Dynasty in China-- in the far east. | | | | a matter of fact some of the crowds rivaled those |
| This just implies the sport was possibly played as | | | | of men's teams. In 1921 both the English and Scottish |
| early as 25-250CE. | | | | football leagues both banned women from playing on |
| The women Europe were the next to take on the | | | | pitches owned by the FA. It was thought that this |
| challenge. It is believed that French women played | | | | move was in part due to jealousy of the |
| the soccer sport as early as the 12th century. This | | | | overwhelming success women achieved in football. |
| would have been an integrated part of local folk | | | | The said ban on women playing on member grounds |
| festivals and celebrations. There is evidence of an | | | | was not lifted until 1971. But, there was a lot of |
| annual soccer competition being played in the | | | | interest in the sport brewing before that. In 1966, |
| highlands of Scotland from about 1790. | | | | England had won the world cup. This ignited all kinds |
| In 1863 there came an essential rule change in the | | | | of new interests and development of the sport. One |
| sport of soccer all together. The governing bodies | | | | of these was women's football. All over Europe |
| established rules prohibiting violence on the pitch. That | | | | women's professional teams were beginning to for. |