Women's soccer is having a moment

And Dennis Rodman's teenage daughter is the best young player that the United States has. She's electric on the pitch

Their stock is up, a lot of well known people are buying shares in teams, even from other sports (Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka, etc.).

R2 Yeah. The new NWSL franchise in California has a lot of celebrities shareholders and part owners

Angel City is having their first home match tonight and have sold out at 22,000 spectators.

Something else that is exciting for us that play EA sports FIFA. The next edition well reportedly feature women's domestic leagues for the first time. So you can play as Chelsea and Arsenal etc.

Women's soccer is always having a moment.

Let’s talk about the English, American, Australian and Swedish women’s teams who were beaten by school boys.

That is such a silly and tired argument. No one is saying they can beat men. No one is saying that that matters. It stands alone as a good, engaging and entertaining product. And many many people agree

More positive momentum in women's soccer.

If they can’t beat teenage boys it can’t possibly be good, engaging , or entertaining.

The average audience for a women’s premier team in the uk is between 4-8 thousand, so I’m not alone in finding women’s football a joke.

[quote] If they can’t beat teenage boys it can’t possibly be good, engaging , or entertaining.

How and why would one expect that fair or engaging competition could possibly be had between two different biological sex types with different physiology? What a ridiculous statement. This of course is the very reason why we need and why we have sex-segregated physical sports.

Because, r11, we ‘re told women’s football is exciting, having its moment, and more skilful than the men’s game. In truth outside of America the viewing figures are a joke, and the standard of play an embarrassment.

The women's FA cup final tickets just went on sale a couple days ago and they are already over 30,000 sold

Aren’t they worried about possible womb tilt from all that running around?

It's still soccer.

That’s terrific R13, but the average attendance at a premier match is 50,000 to 70,000.

[quote] women’s football is exciting, having its moment, and more skilful than the men’s game? In truth outside of America the viewing figures are a joke, and the standard of play an embarrassment.

R12 the comparison to the mens’ global game is needless, facile and unfair—that’s what other posters are trying to get through to you.

Because the reach and popularity of mens’ pro soccer across the world is stratospheric, and has always been popular since its inception some 125 years ago, that doesn’t mean that the much-younger, underfunded, and only recently validated womens’ pro soccer should be expected to match these levels and then judged as the poor sibling for inevitably falling short.

If the same endless dirty money, intense and constant media coverage, and the overwhelming attention & respect isn’t there for the womens’ game like it is for the mens’, then of course crowd attendance and tv/streaming viewing figures will be lower. The same financial and cultural hype machine isn’t in place for the females. Nothing to do with athletic skill or credibility.

If you do n’t want women’s football to be compared with men’s football then women players should stop demanding equal pay.

R17 very well said

I'm watching Barcelona vs Wolfsburg right now and Barca is on a whole different level. Best women's football team of all time? so far.

And just like that Barcelona gets their first loss in 48 matches. They still advance on aggregate goals but actually got out-played today. The end of the game was fantastic.

Do the women play on the same size field as the men?

I wish I understood soccer like I do American football. I know the very basics of soccer but none of the strategy. I still like to watch it though.

R22 Yes. They have exact same rules and regulations.

R22 Yes. All the same rules and regulations. Including same pitch size, same size soccer ball and same size goals

R23/R24 bear in mind though that American/MLS soccer is run differently to European/English football, though both are adjucated by FIFA (since 2010).

Most significantly, the financial structure is radically divergent. In the U.S., players sign their contracts to play with their League as a whole single entity, which is an unthinkable scenario on the Continent with its competitive market between individual magnate owners for players, managers & teams.

The League champions of each are decided differently. The U.S. rely solely on playoff match results to decide their season-winning team, whereas in Europe & the U.K. League the finalists & winners are decided by points totals from a regular-season record. Another difference is that of team promotion & relegation between levels in the League, which is a consistent threat and possibility in Europe & the U.K. but not in the U.S. Also, the timetable of games and the calendar of the season are different between the two; for Europe & the U.K. it's August to May, for the U.S. it's March to November.

Even the playing style and the development of players don't match up. Continental & British play style favours crossing and passing the ball up the pitch and using movement in what is called 'long-ball' style; American style favours keeping possession of the ball and using strength of each individual player on the ground to get goals. Most American players are scouted and drawn as older teenagers from high-school or College/University teams, and then trained and developed into pros from there. In the European and especially in the British Leagues, however, promising talents are spotted and seeded for specialist training as young as 5 or 6 years old, and sometimes as young teens go to academies that allow them to train intensively rather than follow a 'normal' mainstream education. Continental youth will also be recruited by big world-class professional clubs at a young age, to play youth tournaments for their own in-house under-21/19/16/14/11 teams.

To be a world-class footballer requires low brain function and certain degree of, how shall we say, licentiousness.

Females have a higher baseline intelligence than males, and females are socially-conditioned to keep their legs closed to men. Not so with males.

I enjoy it.

If peak Amanda Bynes couldn't make womens' soccer happen big, no-one can.

Another big reason that womens' soccer isn't really as big across the world as mens', besides funding and advertising/sponsorship and media broadcasts, is that so many boys play it daily, on the street or the school tarmac or the local fields, as a common and socially-acceptable/encouraged way to bond and pass the time, whether they ever turn pro or not. Particularly in England, Spain, Italy, and South America, it's more or less a ubiquitous sight to see groups of young lads playing a game of football together in a public space. Then there's the culture of football on top of that, an all-consuming interest for so many boys due to aggressive marketing and socialisation, capturing the interest of lads who aren't even athletic--we all knew a 'Statto' (a nerdy Aspergic kid obsessed with player stats and match details) or a Freestyler (someone who does tricks with a football but doesn't really play the game properly) growing up. It's a rite of passage for so many young and teen boys.

Much fewer girls play or participate in the culture of football in this social way with such regularity, whether due to enforced socialisation (the general societal expectation that little girls oughn't to dedicate all their time to such a puerile pastime), due to exclusion by their male peers and lack of space to play on their own (schools often only have one pitch taken up by boys, and streets/roads are less safe places for little girls to play), or due to genuine organic lack of interest in intensely focusing on a trivial competitive sport (there's an argument that most females have less testosterone and therefore less interest in sport).

Newcastle plays in the 4th tier of Women's Football in England. Today they had over 22,000 in the stands for a regular season league match

R31 hopefully the womens' senior squad are less cunty than the mens'.

^^than their *fans*, I should say

Todays FA Finals between Chelsea and Manchester City is an absolute banger! Great match with over 49k in attendance.

Do they wear outfits like those beach volleyball strippers in which their labia are so full frontal? And now they are taking broadcast times away from men's sports. It sucks.

Womens football is increasingly popular with viewers because the quality of the play is high and its loads of fun to watch.

I can’t complain.

R36 it's cool to see how the womens' game has far more aggression and a more constant pace, though the players are technically physically weaker and slower by biology. Proves that females go harder at this than the spoiled and divo males.

[quote] The average audience for a women’s premier team in the uk is between 4-8 thousand, so I’m not alone in finding women’s football a joke.

If you're going to go there, then the most powerful country in the world and enormous sports viewing audience finds your whole sport a joke (male or female). It's only Eurotrash countries that are obsessed with soccer.

R38 Are you kidding me? It's also the biggest sport in Africa and Asia and the Middle East and South America and Central America and Eastern Europe.

Lol, ooh the Middle East!! Middle Easterners are the biggest Eurotrash wannabes! The point is, if you're going to point to low viewing audiences as evidence of how inferior women’s sports are, then you may as well call out the whole sport of soccer, as Americans don't give a shit about it.

I work in college athletics and male soccer players are the biggest assholes. Most of them are international. Basketball, baseball, football, etc. are mostly decent guys. But the soccer players are all jerks.

[quote] It's only Eurotrash countries that are obsessed with soccer.

I BEG your pardon?

Jesminda did this 20 years ago

Do gay men even watch women's sports? There are no hot guys to leer at.

R44 Gay guy here and a big sports fan. I've attended more professional women's matches than I have men's. I'm a fan of both and the game.

The female athletes are tougher mentally than the men, and it shows.

^^the difference...

Juventas won the Serie A title in front of a sold out stadium. A year before the league makes the leap to being a true professional league.

Today USA soccer announced that they have agreed on a new CBA that guarantees equal pay for men and women players on the national teams. It also makes the World Cup winnings equal. And it guarantees equal quality of venues for the national teams

That’s great news.

One super cool element of the new CBA is that US soccer has agreed to pay for childcare for the men's players at their tournaments and training camps same as they have for years at women's events.

All they need now is for MTFs to horn their way onto their teams.

I've been watching US women's soccer since the World Cup in 2019 (was the best tournament I've ever seen!). I've also watched some of the English superleague like Chelsea and Arsenal, which both boast a lot of amazing international stars. Chelsea has some of my favorite Swedish nationals.

Spain seems to be really backing its women players in terms of fan turnout, although pay I hear is egregious there for Madrid and Barca, and they haven't put much money into girls' soccer there, but I hope that is changing. I'm expecting that Spain will be a serious contender for the world cup in a few years once they become even more cohesive nationally.

To the jerk saying smaller muscles that women have = boring play. Go back to your cave. Some of the women's games are amazing to watch (like the US/Sweden games in the World Cup or Olympics--they go back and forth in terms of wins and losses). I've sat and tried to watch men's soccer and the men flop so much and grandstand so much that it's embarrassing.

R53 The USA/Canada game with Alex Morgan's last minute goal was one of the best soccer matches I've ever seen. And the ending to the USA/Brazil match with Abby Wambach's last second header was phenomenal.

R54 Yes! And who could forget Brandy Chastain scoring the winning goal in the US vs. China penalty kick shootout in the World Cup in '99 and pulling off her shirt (something men do all the time but don't get headlines for)? Good stuff! Many of those games are extreme nail-biters, especially semi-finals and finals.

I find Arsenal & England’s Beth Mead so adorable and so lovely.

Beth does so much outreach work for deprived kids in the community, too. She grew up in a low-income family, so she can definitely relate to the struggle. Got to love her.

it looks like this is a world wide movement. The Colombian women's league just had their final in front of more than 37,000 fans. That is incredible. Women's soccer has always had limited appeal in North America and parts of Europe but has been massively under funded and under attended and underappreciated in Latin American countries. This is huge.

No one in Europe goes and pays to see women's soccer (football). Who are we kidding?

Spain's national teams also announced an equal pay agreement between the Men's and Women's teams

and the Netherlands too

That’s great news! I’m hoping more countries will follow.

The USSF always argued that women didn’t pull in as many fans, but they refused to release the numbers on how much they spent on mens vs. womens marketing. I strongly suspect the numbers were vastly different.

In 2019, they somehow “accidentally” scheduled the women’s FIFA US vs. Netherlands world final match on the same day as the men’s gold cup final match and Copa America cup final. Guess who had the more prime time slots and who played at 11 a.m. Eastern (I had to wake up at 7 am to watch the women’s final on my coast!). It was RIDICULOUS that they didn’t put a winning US team in prime time in the evening for all of USA to watch and I’m pretty sure they purposely scheduled them in the same day as a “fuck you!” To womens soccer.

Just spend the money on women and people will come. Give them a chance.

Lioness lesbian Leah Williamson can step on me honestly

Women players pull no punches and i love that for them

Christ, r63, that was the most boring video I've ever seen. That's what you call pulling no punches? I've seen Peewee football games with more fire. There's a reason why soccer never took off in America. It's boring 😴

R64 we're talking verbals, banter, stick, mate.

Not everything is about physical violence, or needs to be. But you enjoy your backyard lighttube wrestling, or whatever.

SOCCER IS BORING ENOUGH, WITH HOT GUYS. NO ONE IS GOING TO WATCH A BUNCH OF DYKES KICKING A BALL.

Yep, and the trash talk is weak as hell too, r65. Your average men's basketball game has better trash talk than that. And don't get me started on men's pro wrestling. What a dull game. You Eurotrash can have it.

What might happen if they lower the men’s soccer pay downwards?

I’m r68. Did not mean to be facetious since reading some assholes earlier replies going backward from latest to earlier remarks. You need to be sure to cover all deplorable tactics the owners of teams might pull out of the bag. Someone needs to look further into this scenario because equal pay alone may not mean more pay if they lower US Mens pay. There is no Good Faith adherence these days. Have some lawyer close up this loophole NOW!

Also, I donut follow Women’s soccer too closely - or not too much into soccer as a whole.

Shit! …do not follow…

FUCK OFF, YOU QUEENS and White Supremacist faggot assholes. Please feel free to merge yourselves with the abhorrent MAGAT Neanderthals! Women will be the only ones to save your sorry asses when the Christofascist Pukes come after you. Don’t forget.

Meant to include incels as well.

I am so excited about the women's Euros coming up. It should be a fantastic tournament

[quote] Women will be the only ones to save your sorry asses when the Christofascist Pukes come after you.

Uh, no we won't.

^^BRAVO….Touché!^^^

I would watch it if they let CR7 play in a sportsbra.

R77 someone as creepy, egotistical and soulless as Cristiano wouldn't get as far in the womens' game. You need to have some respect to play with the girls.

The opening match of the 2022 EUROs is happening right now in ESPN. 75,000 people in the stands for the first match.

England wins the first match of the tournament 1-0 over Austria. At a sold out Old Trafford. Austria is pretty impressive in defeat. It looks like this will be a good tournament!

Austria's team is a pretty good one, has been for quite a while now (and so much better than the male players who suck big time).

That being said, I guess they're not too sad about losing today as England is a really tough opponent.

The US national team can't even beat a boys' high school team. Yeah, women's soccer is having a moment alright.

Tomorrow is Norway vs Northern Ireland and on Friday is the matchup I'm really looking forward to, Spain vs Finland.

The current England mens' vice-Captain Jordan 'Hendo' Henderson has praised the Lionesses under Leah Williamson.

England NT causing me stress? across both sexes? it’s more likely than you think

R85 I feel like they will grow into the tournament, but Austria was so close to earning a draw in the final minutes of the first match.

Wow! Finland up over Spain within the first minute of play!

The soccer world has corrected itself in Spain is leading 2-1 going into half time

Jill Scott is my fave mad Auntie and I am gonna be so devo'd when she retires

Sweden v. Netherlands was a great game and such a nail-biter! I’m loving these matches and fans are packing the stands (21,400 at this match in Sheffield)!

England’s lionesses are significantly better at their Geography than the lions. Shocker😁

^^the Lions’ attempt, for comparison😂😂😂

Womens sports are sooooo BORING.

Loving on Lotte Wubben-Moy rn. Something about her vibe is so cool and zen and appealing to me, plus she's adorable. Her background is so different, not an academy pedigree and a local playground wunderkind like most of the national girls, but an inner-city street baller from an international family of craftspeople and artistic performers.

Is she lesbian?

Bronzey & Meads just got their own episode of Chicken Shop Date! That's when you know you've made it as a baller.

Incredible result for the Lionesses vs. Norway. Beth's hat-trick was spectacular, but all played like stars. Well done, girls, on to the next one!

excited for spain vs germany later today. i'm rooting for spain but it's feeling like an easy german win

Doing the maths, I've discovered that, using the England senior womens' squad for this year alone, you could literally field a starting XI of all Out lesbians, provided you played a few of them out of position (i.e. there isn't an Out goalkeeper, so a defender would have to step in). It's nice to know that they're so comfortable to exist as openly gay and no-one really harasses them for their sexuality, even if they do get the predictable and tired old stick for the crime of Just Being A Woman (and seriously, it's 2022, how about we cut that out).

Pity that the mens' senior side isn't quite so forthcoming, though it's understandable why given the toxicity of male football business culture and the markets they sell the game in (conversely, womens' football isn't big in homophobic countries--shocker). Hopefully this next up-and-coming generation of young Lions will feel safer, able to be open. even if just a handful of them to start with. Really, though, they need and deserve a senior international player or three to show them the way, just like Jill Scott, Rachel Daly, Demi Stokes, Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson etc. have done for the women. How can you ask a kid to be so brave and step out of the line, when his elders won't do the same...

damn. spain is outplaying germany but the germans are leading 2-0 in the first half. a horrific goal keeper mistake on the first goal and a set piece on the second.

Sweden barely got out of that Switzerland match alive. I was shocked that the Swiss defense was almost impenetrable.

Same for Netherlands and Portugal!

R98 England, Sweden, Australia, and Netherlands have the most out lesbian/bi players, if I’m not mistaken. Not necessarily in that order, but generally. The US has a fair amount, but less than the others I think.

I’m wondering why France has no out players at all, and some of the other teams don’t have many either. I’m pretty sure with most teams it’s close to 50/50 gay-bi/straight but there’s always some who stay closeted for personal reasons or because they fear backlash or loss of endorsements.

[quote] there's an argument that most females have less testosterone and therefore less interest in sport).

This is not just an argument, it’s a remarkably well-supported one; it’s an observable phenomenon seen across all human cultures on Earth, which largely disproves the “socialization hypothesis”. Testosterone levels strongly correlate with modes of play as children, aggressiveness, violence, etc, across all different societies on Earth.

Sheffield have been brilliant hosts

thinking about Leah W today...no reason just thinking about her....sigh

sorry but is anyone getting tension from the interaction between Leah & Bronzey? even Jill Scott says there is🤭

this lesbian sees chemistry...

R105 I thought Bronze was with Walsh?

R106 yep afaik lucy & keira are still an item!

still people can and do flirt or experience little frissons of attraction outside their couple without actually cheating. i know if i were a lioness in lucy's vicinity i'd find it hard not to blush or try and get her attention

Things you love to see... more than 45k in attendance for a Women's African Cup of Nations match between Morocco and Nigeria

USA beats Canada to win the CONCACAF title and is automatically qualified for the Paris Olympics

R109 I watched the match and was very disappointed in the US. It was a boring match, and the US only won because of a penalty. Lots of wildly bad attempts on goal. This is not the same team I saw in 2019 blasting their way through the World Cup with gusto.

The newbies are not meshing well with the older team members. There is no chemistry and poor organization. Vlatko is not doing any favors to the team. I think they need to rethink the coach.

The older team actually looked like they had fun when they played, even though they hated Jill Ellis. What happened?

I think Ellis got a bad rap. I liked her. But I actually enjoyed their performance last night. Other teams are catching up and their finishing has been off but their overall play was much better last night.

this vs. Spain wtf i can't even watch without covering half my face the TENSION!!

lionesses applying pressure but these spanish bints won't stop getting at us :/ worried we're gonna be worn down

ha'way girls i don't wanna lose another Euros can't go through it again!!!!

As well as Alex Scott being insightful and quick on the comms she's also is stunning btw she can step on me

Gotta admit, Spain is looking good today. Imagine if they Putellas on the pitch

R114 eh? i thought her ACL was torn

R115 yeah, she's out for the tournament. i just meant imagine how much better they would be if she was healthy

R116 ah fairs!!! Yeah we'd struggle against her massively, sorry she's hurt obviously but glad for our tournament chances that she's out :P

What was that protestor on the pitch for just now? BBC Sport cut away and don't show things like that

The American broadcaster is are saying that Spain entered the tournament as favorites. Maybe I'm missing something but I had France, England, Germany and Sweden rank above them

SPAIN!!!!

Ffs I can't cope with this can't go through another summer of shame and grief

it wasn't even a good touch like?? and there were bodies there??? Millie was wedged nearly inside the goal and still didn't get to it like what was she DOING

Loz and this ref seem to be at loggerheads...

sorry but why do the Spanish have such loose boots? this is like the third or fourth time one's come off lol

What a game!

thank FUCK Elz you absolute star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now let's eat these toasty pestinos for pudding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the old Cheating Timewasting Complaining Spaniards trope crosses even the sex barrier eh?

Love seeing all the drunk paunchy lads and old fellas in the crowd vibing and cheering on the players as well as women & kids. Makes a fucking change.

right Mary is gonna have to pull a Jordan Pickford to get us out of this alive

What a goal!!!

love a screamer!!!!! the power on that

argh my completely legal stream has just started lagging cutting out and failing someone catch me up pls

Jill! My auntie!!!

Ok it's only 5 mins but love that she's getting to come on in her 10th tourney. She's even more of a veteran than the current oldest Lions (Hendo/Walks/Tripps).

Spain more technically proficient and probably the better XI on paper but their attitude and arrogance did them in. That's football babes!!!

I’m happy that one semifinal will most likely be Sweden V. England (I’m assuming Belgium goes down against the #2 team in the world). That will be a great match.

That was CLOSE for the Lionnesses. They looked scrappy compared to Spain in the first half. Glad they won!

I’ll be watching the rest of the quarterfinal matches this week!

Anyone else like Two Girls Talk Balls podcast/Tw!tter?

Jill Scott's tour of the Lensbury camp just dropped!

This woman is so lovely as well as a fantastic baller, we truly do not deserve her.

Wow. Sweden wins as expected but Belgium kept it level until the 92nd minute

Great defense from Belgium. I was rooting for Sweden, but really felt for Belgium’s goalie.

How come 98% of them are gay?

R138 maybe because team sport is one of the few remaining environments where women can be left alone to work and play together without harassment?

what a save by van Domselaar!

France!

Frances vs Germany and England vs Sweden

That game was interminable ye Gods.

The stamina and resolution of the French has impressed me. But it was a game they really could not lose for the sake of their pride.

Funny to me that we (England) have nicked Sarina and we're doing bits while the Dutch team have one of our coaches and are doing nothing special.

I'm not sure I ever expected to see scenes like this for a woman's football match in Africa. Incredible.

Getting Miedema back for the quarterfinal with France did nothing to help Netherlands progress. Their offense was abysmal. That said, France wasn’t doing well either. It looks like the exuberance of the tournament has given way to exhaustion and sloppiness.

What should have been some of the most exciting matches (quarterfinals) ended up more dull than the group stage matches because everyone seems tired. Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, and France ending the 90 minutes without a goal was disappointing.

I hope Sweden v. England is a high goal scoring match!!! Both can knock them in when they are focused!!! I’ll be rooting for Sweden, but I love England too. Just not quite as much.

Cascarino is so pretty I think I'm in love yenno

Is Dephine open to same sex delights?

R146 Aren't they all gay?

15 minutes left and weird stuff can happen but looks like Colombia will earn a trip back to the World Cup.

Wiegman sounds sure and strong in the pressers. Don't want to jinx anything by getting too excited, though...

I want England to win just because they have been really great hosts and I want the fans to experience a smashing final at home

R150 yes!!!👏👏👏 it’s been a fantastic summer, and it would be lovely to cap it off with the Euros win at long last! The girls have worked so hard to prove themselves, and the fans have waited so long.

Still, we have to acknowledge how good Sweden are. They’ve been superb all tournament. If England are to take the game from them, we’re going to have to fight tooth and nail to do so.

so amped up for this match and the fans sounds incredible!

crowds are massive, really impressive and encouraging turnout

Already the attack from Sweden is so direct. Their #11 (can’t spell her name) is deadly😰

unlucky Meado!!! England need to get one in first half, and early as possible imo.

Earps is so funny when she yells at everyone to calm down😂

‘Blackstenius’ is such a villainous name::

Loz got fouled so hard just then, where was the yellow? Is this ref crooked?

what a start to the match!

wow. Sweden is going full throttle

the more I watch Kirby at international level the more obvious it becomes that she is made to look good by the players around her at Chelsea

please take her off asap Sarina she’s a liability

What I don’t get is that we know Sweden’s main strategy—left hanging , intense press, many bodies in the box—and yet apparently still don’t have a strategy to counter it..

Yes!!!

Beth!!!!!!👏👏👏never in doubt my girl

Ah I see the Man Ure—sorry, United—Loser Squad from the mens’ team have turned up to watch the semi. Harry Maguire could certainly benefit from some pointers on rudiments of football.

🙏🙏🙏(((Toone & Russo on the second half)))🙏🙏🙏

Someone over on the active L Chat thread just said ‘can’t believe Ellen White is straight she looks like she eats pussy for breakfast’💀💀💀

goal stands! 2-0

Think this scoreline has caught Sweden off-guard a bit. They expected to walk it, even on England’s home soil...

Bronze has full access to my pussy for that header btw😳🤒

Loz wasted that Alessia assist🍳

Cheeky from Russo💫💫3-0

This so much better than watching Southgate’s mens’ team!

The final is going to be electric!

Woukd love to know what Sarina said to the girls at half time. Must have been a Mourinho calibre speech.

Only teams with female managers left in the tourney. As it should be.

It was hard to watch Sweden get spanked. They looked tired, as I've mentioned before. They had 2 less days to rest than England. Gerhardsson made a HUGE tactical mistake by playing the same players throughout the tournament. No rest between Belgium and this match, and it took a big toll today. By the time he subbed in Seger and Bennison in the second half, it was already too late.

I'll be cheering for England from here on out.

The rumour is that Prince W!llz is bringing Charlotte to see the final.

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Diani goal off the post in the 44th minute👊A madness

Would prefer to play France in the final tbh as it will be a more fun lively game and I feel the Blues have worked hard to deserve it. Reckon clinical efficient Germany will tire them out and shut them down though😪😪

It’s unbelievable to me that Popp, Obendorf etc. are all straight. They all walk so butch yet they have fewer girls out than England.

Alexandra Popp has scored in five consecutive European Championship matches, equalling Michel Platini's record for France, set at the men's tournament in 1984.

UK here, I have zero interest in football, but the Women’s European Championship seems to have caught the public imagination. Night after night matches are being watched by millions. I think it’s fantastic for young girls to see a sport they can take part in being treated equally to the men’s sport.

sidebar wouldn’t it be cool if some of the male players wore mascara and nail paint like women do

R178 yes it's so positive!!! Been a long time coming but finally womens' football is being given its due and day in the sun. Don't know what the cultural sea change in the U.K. was and why now (bottling the mens' Euros final last year? COVID? TERF Island? Everyone peaking and getting unanimously sick of the Tories?), but whatever it is there's no denying the attendance or the hit counts or the engagement. Women are here to stay in this game!!!!

Not trying to be rude or judge the relationships of others, but; how tf did Jordan Nobbs ever land Leah W?

Leah's ridiculously fit, like a lesbian 8/9, not to mention educated, and an elite world-class footballer & Skipper, and Jordan's...well, not those things. Maybe that's why they broke up in the end?

R181 she looks a bit like Tobin Heath in the US, who is with Kristen Press, whom a lot of people think is hotter. But not all women choose for appearance, as we know.

That aside, I was annoyed at how foul-happy and aggressive France played and was happy to see them lose after bullying Germany. It didn’t work!

On to the England v. Germany final! Sold out, by the way.

Popp is straight?

R183 it's literally unbelievable, but she claims to be, yes.

Maybe she's technically woman-leaning bi or fucked a man once, or something. Some women use pretzel logic to claim that as straightness.

R184 Why would she call herself straight if she was woman-leaning bi? It's not like female football is homophobic. Almost all players are gay and out.

I’m cheering for the FRAUEN!

let's go!!

Well, watching R63 video, women's soccer is LOADED with CUTIES! It's, not the same case with women's basketball.

There’s not been this much dyke representation at Wembley since Melissa Etheridge and kd Lang toured in the 1990s.

What's the name of the blonde in the video thumbnail at R63

Alisha Lehmann, bisexual Swiss forward.

whew. half time

arghhhhhhhh

This a fucking fantastic match! (headed into 2nd OT)

Fuck Yes England!!!!!

Congratulations, Lionesses! The pride overflows!!

That was honestly a fantastic match.

This is how to celebrate properly.

R198 link is broken. but i have enjoyed watching the English ladies celebrate today! well deserved!

The USWNT has announced that it will play England in a friendly — and the match sold out faster than any women's soccer match in history.

The World Champions will meet the European Champions in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley in October

Speaking of women's football, the United States women's tackle football team has defeated Finland to advance to the finals of the world championships. They will most likely face Mexico.

Alessia Russo looks like she's still recovering from the well-deserved celebrations.

Adore her and adore this squad of winners! World Champs and no-one should forget it in a hurry!

ball brain banter beauty!! 🦁 my girls have it all

Daly’s come back home at last!🏅On a 3 year deal with Aston Villa.

With the state of Villa atm, she’ll be Captaining both the womens’ and mens’ squad within ten months...

Oh My God. What a goal just now by Costa Rica in the U20 Women's World Cup in front of a nice size crowd

Meanwhile mens' soccer is slowly burning to ashes as people see through the smoke and mirrors at last. Good!

Men have had their turn, over a hundred years to run the game how they wanted and be on top. Their time is over now.

Suspected Ellen White would be retiring, but didn't want to face the fact. Really shall miss her...

San Diego Wave have sold 27k tickets for their first match at Snapdragon Stadium. That will break the NWSL attendance record.

The opening matches for the WSL were going to smash records. They sold out matches and were playing some of them in larger, Premier League stadiums. They had special features and broadcast time dedicated to the opening weekend. Now everything is postponed for the Queen's death. The attendance numbers and viewership numbers will plummet. The sense of it being an event has been taken away.

Inter vs Corinthians' first leg in the Brasileirao final broke the record attendance for a women's match in Brazil, with 36.330 fans in attendance

New NWSL attendance record set

R209 kind of chilling—a Queen dying and the hype for womens’ sport getting killed with her...

Reminder: Lucy Bronze is on the show Football Focus tomorrow!

She's only just started her season at Barca, thanks to strikes in La Liga. And now she's playing with all the women she beat in the Euros..

47,000 for todays Arsenal match

Tonight, Leah Williamson & Jill Scott attended the averted-disasterclass that the England mens' seniors put in against Germany. Some of the crowd watching nearby them were heard urging them both to pull on shirts and sub on for the lads letting down the England camp out there lmao

Aumty Jill says "gonna manage and coach the Sunderland mens' team in a few years just watch". She'll take them top of the table in 3 seasons I bet.

When Jordan Henderson retires he can be her assistant, will be amazing.

Alex Scott is finally out!

So, she's bi or "bi"?

She seems to be trying to pass as bi but I don't buy it...

I for one have never considered Alex Scott to be straight or even bi (at least not straight-leaning bi) a day in my life.

I see today that coincidentally the gossip press is full of articles about the time Alex Scott supposedly went on a date with a male Corrie actor (a picture of them having dinner in a restaurant). Yes, Alex, you're 'open to dating men and women' but you don't exactly fall 'madly and deeply in love' with men, do you?

Maybe I'm wrong but this looks farcical to me.

Who is the West Ham manager and how is he so hot?

Would anyone familiar with womens' Premier League and NWSL quickly profile each top club in terms of stereotypical character & personality? Like a short sentence or a phrase that sums up each, either humorously/denigratory or straight up facts. Just trying to see something.

R222 Stam's current mens' team have some adorable, sexy and decent players & coaches, as well.

Sadly, Hammers' fans tend to be utter cunts. Seriously, 9/10 of their supporters I've met have been awful people, undercover bitches.

It's always weird to me when I see a female football/soccer player with a boyfriend/husband. It's like seeing a male fashion stylist with a woman.

I read Alex Scott's autobiography. She wrote about an 8 or 9 year relationship with Kelly Smith and then kind of shoved in an anecdote about how a very famous boybander tried his best to date her but outside of some kisses she didn't because he was too famous and she didn't want to be known as his girlfriend. I find that hard to buy given that she has been all about trying to raise her profile. If she genuinely liked him in that way she'd have dated him is my thinking.

Then later on in the book she mentioned a two-year relationship but used 'they/them' pronouns. (I'm guessing that if it was a man, 'he/him' pronouns would have been used.) She said that they were very jealous and that they broke up before she did Strictly. I don't know who it is.

An absolutely sensational week of playoff soccer in the NWSL

What a finish to the Portland match! The home team wins deep into stoppage time. Crystal Dunn scores her first goal since having a baby earlier this spring. The scenes inside the stadium is incredible to see.

Canada will likely have a new women's pro league next year. Sinclair is involved in bringing it all together.

I can't wait to see Morocco play in the Women's World cup

The women's champion league starts in earnest tomorrow and I'm really excited! i'm especially interested in seeing how far Roma advances.

there's also something else happening that's kind of cool and has the potential to grow the women's side of the game, at least four women's domestic leagues have been added to FIFA 23. They will also be adding the women's champion league tournament this week, and will have the ability to play with all the teams during the World Cup. The next edition of the game is rumored to include career mode for female characters and even more leagues.

England beat Brazil last week in front of over 83,000 fans at Wembley

Arsenal has sold over 30,000 tickets for their next Champions League match and have now opened the upper tier of the Emirates stadium.

Roma broke an Italian record with 39,000 in attendance for their clash against Barcelona last month.

Over 72,000 in attendance today in Barcelona as the home side advanced to the Champions League final after a draw with Chelsea. (2-1 on aggregate)

I watch Women's World Cup. I don't think I'd watch regular everyday league. Though that's the same for the men. Most women's sports I watch to the same degree as men's sports - if there's a women's equivalent (there isn't obviously for football). The one exception might be basketball. I'll watch women's NCAA tournament, but maybe only quarterfinals onward, as where I'll watch every round of the men, plus a few regular season games. NBA I mostly watch the playoffs, and I generally don't watch WNBA.