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From Strength to Strength

Ariana Rubio reflects on the success of the Women's World Cup in continuing to advance the development of the game

ON BOXING Day in 1920, more than 53,000 people gathered to watch a women’s football match between Dick Kerr’s Ladies and St Helen’s Ladies in Liverpool.
By the end of 1921, there were about 150 women’s football teams in England. That year, however, the Football Association (FA) effectively prohibited professional women’s football when they banned women from using their grounds. Some speculate that the FA feared that the popularity of women’s football would impinge on the men’s ...

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