Women’s Rights In Sports

“The USA women’s national team thrashed Japan 5-2 in the final of the FIFA World Cup 2015 but it has barely registered on the global conscience. Compare this to the time when Germany beat Argentina in the final of 2014 FIFA World Cup or even when Chile beat Argentina in the 2015 Copa America final. Though one can argue, that there’s certainly more interest than before.

Last year, Stephanie Roche’s goal for Peamount United (an Irish football club) ran Colombian James Rodrigues’s strike in the World Cup pretty close for FIFA Puskas Goal of the Year Award. That a woman footballer’s goal would garner 33% votes was unthinkable but that was just how awesome her goal was. In fact, technically speaking, it was better than the Rodrigues’s goal but she lost out because the grandeur of the men’s World Cup (the biggest sporting event in the world) blanked out the Women’s National League of Ireland. But, this was a clear sign that women’s football (or soccer if you are American) had come of age.”

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