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Lingerie Football
Topic Started: 29 Jan 2016, 05:24 PM (323 Views)
SuffolkRoyal
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I was watching a news article this morning about something called lingerie football. It seemed to have some very mixed up ideas of how to promote womens football. The organisers talk about bridging the inequality which exists between men and womens football (something which in my view will never happen) by setting up a league where women wear next to nothing.

It all sounds very odd to me. They seem to be saying that if the women players don't wear very much it will get bigger audiences. I suppose thats possible, but it seems a bit extreme.

I suppose it could be argued that female athletes and volleyball players have worn skimpy clothes for years, but this could put back, progress to get womens football taken seriously, by years

http://lingeriefootballleague.co.uk/
Edited by SuffolkRoyal, 29 Jan 2016, 05:25 PM.
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It's an incredibly stupid idea. As you say women's football will never match the men's game but there s no reason why it can't survive and grow/evolve over a period of time without the players having to demean themselves.
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I'm certainly no fan of womens football, I think its dire, but for those people who work hard to promote it, this must be like a kick in the teeth.
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I have been to a women's football game, and it was comparable to lower league football, with the odd player being an exception. I don't think the quality of the game, in the UK, will become good enough that many current football fans will turn up to women's games regularly - in the medium term anyway. It may attract more females to the sport, however.

The problem is that the best leagues in the world are currently France, Germany and the United States. That's not going to change soon. In fact, England's best women's team in last season's Women's Champions League got knocked out in the Quarter-Finals by Frankfurt 12-0 on aggregate. This season, the English champions reached the Round of 16.

This idea is only going to make people think that women's football isn't serious and is just for show, harming any future chance of the English league becoming one of the better leagues in the world.
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I am a massive fan of the women's game and this idea is totally laughable! I admit that the quality isn't the same as the men's game but you have to understand that most of them have only been professional, full time footballers for a few years compared to the boys who join a club at around 10-11 and get coached by professionals.

Gates have risen for the WSL games since the World Cup, that is a fact. I feel it's only a matter of time before the women get the respect and coverage that they deserve. The Lionesses totally put the men's team to shame in the World Cup - the desire and belief they showed was unbelievable. They fought for each other and fought for shirt, which is more than can be said for the men at times. The Three Lions often seem like a team of individuals whilst the Lionesses are a complete, solid unit.
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On Women's soccer, Texas is a bit of a hotbed. I am aware of what are called here 'traveling teams' - all-stars that are recruited from an area for girls starting at 12 years old. Odessa/Midland (my area) has about 240,000 population (a large percentage Hispanic) and we do not have a local team, but have girls from both towns recruited for a team out of Lubbock (110 miles north, ~250,000 pop). This sort of team often has a former college-level player as a coach, or a coach from one of the area high schools, sometimes with help from a local college or junior college coach as well (so they can scout the younger players and know who to look for once they hit high school). I'm not sure that that is all that different from the UK, but the high school and college programs are getting good support (Title IX says girls sports are to be funded like boys sports, so there are some nice college scholarships for women's soccer), and the girls' soccer teams get ink in the local newspapers, just like the boys'.

As for 'lingerie sports', it's a cheap import from America designed to get 14-24 year old males with no social life to watch something to sell ads. I would have hoped the Pond would have protected the UK from some of our worst ideas, but it seems not... :-/ I blame El Nino.
Edited by Owlish52, 1 Feb 2016, 07:06 PM.
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