“Let’s go and make history” is the message from the organisers of this year’s Women’s Euros, and it looks like the football tournament is about to do just that.
Hosted by England and starting today , the UEFA Women’s Championships 2022 is set to be the biggestA record-breaking 500,000 tickets have already been sold for the live matches – twice as many as the previous Euros in the Netherlands in 2017 – and around 100,000 international fans are expected to attend matches and more than 250 million people around the world are expected the watch the games on TV.
The success was short-lived, however, when women were forced to stop playing in 1921. It wouldn’t be until 1971 that women in England were finally allowed back onto football pitches – a gap that greatly hindered the women’s game. “I really do believe wholeheartedly that the game is in a very good place and a place where we can showcase women’s sport in general […] me and women before me have done our best to get the game into the position it’s in today and there’s still so much more to be done, but [this year’s team] deserves to be full-time professionals and play the game where their central focus is just being the best they can be as athletes.
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