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Football as a Catalyst for Entrepreneurship: Evaluating the Impact of Female Athletes’ Sporting Experiences on Entrepreneurial Pursuits
This research looked at how playing football helps female athletes become entrepreneurs after their playing careers end. Even though women's football is growing, many players don't earn enough from the sport alone and need other ways to make money.
Defensive pressure strategies and their impact on offensive play in elite women’s football
Research has looked at how teams attack in elite women's soccer, but there hasn't been much study on how a team's defense right after losing the ball affects the opponent's attack. This study aimed to fill that gap by specifically looking at the relationship between defensive pressure (trying to win the ball back right away) and the way the opposing team starts their attack in high-level games, using data from the UEFA Women's Champions League 2023/2024 season.
Stakeholder Perspective on Challenges in Women’s Football
Women's football still faces big challenges because of old unfair practices and ideas about gender, leading to less money, limited media attention, and the sport not being valued as much as men's football. Despite more people playing and paying attention, hidden cultural beliefs and system problems make it hard to achieve gender equality.
“We Are Doing a Job”: The 1971 Mexican Women’s Soccer Players and the Fight for Professionalism
The article discusses the struggle of Mexican women's soccer players for professional recognition during the 1971 World Cup held in Mexico. At this time, women playing soccer challenged existing social beliefs that confined women to the home and limited their participation in sports deemed only for men. The 1971 Mexican team performed very well, reaching the final, and the tournament itself attracted large crowds, showing the economic potential of women's soccer. Despite generating significant income for organizers and companies through ticket sales and advertising, the players themselves received little to no financial compensation for their efforts, time, and sacrifices.
Effect of match load on perceived wellness in highly trained female football players
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This study looked at how playing competitive matches affects the well-being, or "wellness," of highly trained female football players over the two days following a game. Wellness includes things like how tired players feel (fatigue), muscle soreness (delayed onset muscular soreness or DOMS), stress levels, and how well and how long they sleep. Researchers wanted to see how these factors changed from matchday and if physical information collected during the match, like distances covered at high speeds, could predict these wellness changes.
ACL Injuries in Women’s Football: The Professionalisation Mismatch
The article discusses a problem in women's football called the “professionalisation mismatch” . This refers to how the sport is rapidly growing and demanding more from players, but the support and resources provided haven't kept up . Despite women's football becoming more professional over the last two decades, the number of serious knee injuries, specifically ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears, has stayed about the same .
Load distribution across weekly microcycles according to match schedule in a team competing in the Australian national A-League Women’s soccer competition
This study examined the daily training and match loads experienced by a professional women's soccer team in the Australian A-League Women's competition over a single season. The researchers collected data on how hard the players worked, both internally (how tired they felt) and externally (how much they ran and at what speeds), across different weekly schedules based on when matches were played.
A competitive season of training injuries in New Zealand amateur women’s soccer
This study looked at training injuries in an amateur women's soccer team in New Zealand over a single season. Researchers wanted to understand how often injuries happened and how serious they were. They followed 31 players who trained twice a week on artificial turf and collected data on any physical problems that occurred during these training sessions.
A women's soccer collection of the Grêmio Museum – Hermínio Bittencourt (Porto Alegre, RS): When musealization provides collaborative experiences
This research from Brazil examines the creation and development of the women's football collection at the Grêmio Museum – Hermínio Bittencourt in Porto Alegre. The article explores how the museum used a collaborative approach to bring visibility to the history of women's soccer within a club that traditionally focused on men's achievements. By working with female athletes, former players, fans, and researchers, the museum aimed to address the historical invisibility of women's participation in Brazilian soccer.
Women's soccer in Costa Rica: A sociological look at the working, salary, and socio-historical conditions of female soccer players in the Costa Rican first division from 2019 to 2023
For coaches and administrators in women's soccer, this research from Costa Rica provides important insights into the current state of the game for female players. The study looks at the working conditions, pay, and the social and historical context of women's professional soccer in the country between 2019 and 2023. Researchers wanted to understand if the lower pay and challenges faced by female players are linked to long-standing patriarchal attitudes and to explore the everyday realities for these athletes.
Visualizing the Rise of American Women's Soccer
This project, titled "Visualizing the Rise of American Women's Soccer," looks at the growth and increasing importance of women's soccer in the United States. The researcher used data visualizations, timelines, and different media to show important moments, players, and achievements in the sport's history.
Acute responses to a potentiation warm-up protocol on sprint and change of direction in female football players: a randomized controlled study
This article looked at whether a specific type of warm-up, called a potentiation warm-up, could help female soccer players sprint faster and change direction more quickly. Researchers compared this potentiation warm-up, which included jumps and sprints with changes of direction, to the players' usual warm-up routine.
Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Wage Remuneration in Liberia Women Football
This article looks into the issue of lower pay for women soccer players compared to men, focusing on Liberia. While past research often pointed to general gender inequality, this study wanted to find out how other factors, specifically economic and social demographics, affect how much women soccer players in Liberia earn. The researchers used questionnaires with 550 female players to gather information about their families, how much media attention they receive, their years of playing, their level of play, their income, and their employment
Women’s football in mid-twentieth century Brazil and France: three team managers from prohibition to profit
This article looks at the history of women's soccer in Brazil and France during the mid-20th century. It highlights how women faced bans and restrictions in both countries, often linked to societal views about gender and women's roles.
Injury Prevention Strategies in Female Football Players: Addressing Sex-Specific Risks
This research paper looks at the increasing role of women in football globally, but also points out a significant problem: female players are experiencing more and more injuries. Even though football is well-studied, less than 25% of the research focuses specifically on women.
A new probabilistic framework with reliability aspects and statistical analysis of average goals per game in women’s football
This research paper looks at ways to better understand and predict things in sports, especially in women's soccer. The authors noticed that the usual statistical tools might not always be the best for analyzing sports data, like how many goals are scored in a game.
“Prime Time” for Progress: The NWSL Broadcast Deal & Redefining Women’s Soccer Coverage
This research paper looks at the new broadcasting deal for the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2024 and how it affects how easy it is for people to watch women's soccer in the United States. The study looks at the partnerships the NWSL made with TV networks like CBS, ESPN, ION, and streaming services like Amazon Prime Video.
Battle of the Sexes Over Fans—Is Men’s Soccer a Substitute for Women’s Soccer?
This research looked into what affects how many fans attend women's professional soccer games in Germany. Since women's soccer teams often don't get a lot of money from TV deals, they rely heavily on ticket sales to be successful. The researchers wanted to know if having men's professional soccer games at the same time as women's games takes away potential fans. They studied ten seasons of games in Germany's top women's league to see if there's a connection between when the men's and women's leagues play and how many people come to the women's games.