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Cathedral Catholic’s Dawn Lee is poised to become the winningest girls soccer coach in San Diego history - Cathedral Catholic High School When Dawn Lee took over as USDHS' girls soccer coach after her father, Butch, passed away from cancer in 1998, the only number she cared about was 243. "That's how many games he won," she said. "Then that goal came and went." So did 300 wins, then 400 and when the now-Cathedral Catholic High School....

"I can find very few male coaches who have been forced into a similar predicament. This despite the fact that the vast majority of male managers are parents, presumably no less devoted to their offspring, presumably working just as hard to an equally unforgiving schedule."

Men in football get full rein to pursue their dreams while women must compromise | Jonathan Liew Two female WSL managers are leaving for reasons of work-life balance. When it comes to sacrifice, it’s not the same for men

“They definitely underestimated us. But then we showed them that we were just as good as them.”

The Only Girls’ Team in a Boys’ Soccer League Has Gone Undefeated The Queens Park Ladies, an under-12 soccer team in Bournemouth, England, hopes to inspire younger girls to get into the sport after a dominant season against the boys.

“[P]laying football is meaningful, with girls who play gaining life skills that go beyond participation in sport, directly contributing to personal growth and identity formation.”

Team sports help vast majority of young girls feel more confident, says report A new report has analysed the impact of the growth of elite women’s football

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“They did go out to Mexico, and defy everyone, and stick two fingers up to Fifa,” she says. “And it’s really lovely to celebrate that. It wasn’t a dream, it was real.”

‘They stuck two fingers up to Fifa’: the Lost Lionesses and the forgotten 1971 women’s World Cup Crowds of 90,000 packed a football stadium in Mexico for Copa 71, an unsanctioned tournament that is finally being remembered in a new documentary

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"Why didn’t we know about a women’s football tournament held in Mexico in 1971, 20 years before Fifa hosted its first Women’s World Cup? Or that the tournament included sold out games, each played in front of more than 100,000 paying fans?"

Copa 71: when 112,500 fans packed out the unofficial Women’s World Cup final The tournament in Mexico has been all but forgotten about for nearly 50 years. A Venus and Serena Williams executive produced film aims to correct the record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/08/14/diving-women-world-cup/

"So it was great covering the Japan-Sweden game in person, watching Ueki get tripped up by a nefarious blade of grass and then later noticing on social media, or better yet, not noticing a single word typed about her looks, her race, her gender. Only her dive."

Perspective | Who says women soccer players don’t dive? As women's soccer rises, so has an age-old tactic: Flopping. Diving. Crumpling to the ground in agony.

"Against that backdrop, what’s happening in soccer as the U.S. women defend their World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand looks even more remarkable."

Opinion | U.S. Soccer supports working moms. Are you watching, America? U.S. Soccer used to treat pregnancy like a career-ending injury. Now, it’s a model for how all American companies should support working parents.

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"Mistreatment, unequal pay, and discrimination persist. And yet, among the athletes, there is a great feeling of solidarity, and a sense of increasing opportunity."

The World Cup and the Frustrating, Inspiring State of Women’s Soccer Mistreatment, unequal pay, and discrimination persist. And yet, among the athletes, there is a great feeling of solidarity, and a sense of increasing opportunity.

“I could have never imagined where this beautiful game would have taken me.”

Perspective | Megan Rapinoe’s incandescent career changed more than women’s soccer USWNT star Megan Rapinoe helped create a new prototype for female sports icons: audacious, unapologetically competitive and not afraid to offend.

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“It’s about minimum standards, it’s about what needs to be done if we’re going to move this sport forward."

Karen Carney review demands overhaul of women’s football to transform future A review of women’s football chaired by the former player Karen Carney has called for wholesale changes in the future