Birgit Prinz was elected FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Birgit Prinz is regarded as one of the most important women in all-times soccer. She received an offer from Luciano Gaucci, the president of AC Perugia to sign for her squad and to become the first woman to play [...]
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History of Women's Soccer
Women's soccer, although having a huge popularity in the last decades of the 20th century and today, was always shadowed by the men's soccer, but the ladies are determined to change this and come to equal standards with the boys.
The first reference related to women playing soccer can be found in a Han Dynasty fresco believed to be created around 200 CE, which clearly shows two female figures playing with what is believed to be a leather ball.
French women of the 12th century are believed to having played kicking games relating to soccer side by side with their husbands and Scottish women even had an annual competition going around in Mid-Lothian, Scotland.
In 1863 the English Football Association standardized a set of rules that prohibited violence on the pitch, making it easier for women to get into soccer. As a result women's soccer became more and more popular and at some point, it nearly reached the same level of popularity as men's soccer in England. Then women were banned from both the English and Scottish Football Associations until 1971. -
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