Changing Women's Football
England's historic Euros triumph has changed the way
the women's game is viewed. After a turbulent history of discrimination,
underfunding and abuse, women's football in the UK is finally on the
rise. It was a victory that rewrote history, England’s first major
international title in 56 years. That alone would have been special
enough but the
Lionesses represented something
else and understood what they were playing for:
They stood for progress, opportunity and inclusion.
They were playing in a major tournament in England, 100 years after
women had been banned from playing football, and only 50 years after
that ban was lifted. The Lionesses embraced that pressure and what they
could achieve for women’s football and wider society.