This year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) was nothing short of proof that popularity of women’s football is growing exponentially. 45,000 people gathered to watch the South African women’s team Banyana Banyana (The Girls) beat hosts Morocco, to clinch the championship trophy and earn a place in next year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Sports commentators say women’s football is gaining in popularity, in prize money and in participation on the international stage.
The South African Football Association has announced that more than 400,000 women and girls are now playing football through its digital platform, MySAFA. It has also launched a professional league for women. Morocco’s four-year strategy aims to bring 90,000 girls into football by 2024, while also launching a national U-17 league.
This year, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) boosted prize money by 150 percent, awarding the winners of this year’s title $500,000; that’s $300,000 more than Nigeria received when they won in Accra in 2018. Teams who finished bottom of their group received $100,000 in participation fees. But, while it’s a move in the right direction, it is still only one tenth of the $5 million received by the winner of the men’s Africa Cup. On Tuesday, the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed equal pay urging the country’s ministers of finance and sports to up the bonus to equal the men’s team.
In 2020, CAF launched a five-pronged strategy to grow women’s football on the continent and launched a Women’s Champions League in 2021. The plan includes promotion, training and ensuring more women get more opportunities in football.
In this episode we’ll look at women’s football in Africa and ask what are some of the key issues the players and the teams are contending with.
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Womens football is just as good as mens. You’re missing the audience. Figure out how to get men to watch and you’ll be on par. But she’s right. sexism.
Any of these “high level” women teams can get demolished by a team of 15 year-old boys.
How about we get the women to watch “women’s football” and not the Kardashian xD
Money speaks, it’s women who don’t support women sports.
What a relevant subject, I just started subscribing to you, I know many players who were raised up in poverty and were able to escape from poverty just because they had skill in the game of football, it’s one of the few avenues that exist that the poorest people on Earth can use to increase their standard of living – not only for themselves and their family & often friends also, but also their own countries also – which benefits THOUSANDS of others.
Remember the US negotiations? The woman didn’t want the same contract the men had and then complained.
Do woman watch woman football?
If your playing for the Ukrainian Cup it is
For some reason, most of the matches were cagey affairs. We could not see the beauty of the game in the African Cup. It was so physical and we could not see great football. Hopefully, in the next tournament, it will be a good watch. Congrats to South Africa. Morocco in my opinion played the best football.
African atlarge both mens and womens the mindset of Africans toward their own sucess is sometimes really sad. Because at the YouTube coment saying he/she stop watching, how can you stop watching while you can join the move with onelove lets us change that oficiating issue you talking about. Africans should stop the foreign mindset about Africa and work to make things look good, becuz in any sucess road your mindset towards it very important in life.
After many unsuccessful bids Morocco needs a successful bid in hosting the world cup to further develop football in Africa
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Will women watch women’s soccer ? Or will the watch housewife shows ?
Someone was blaming that we should get men to watch women’s sports and the barrier is sexism.
How about we get the women to watch “women’s football” and not the Kardashian xD
Money speaks, it’s women who don’t support women sports.
Facts
U got that from bill burr?
Interesting
It is a very good idea.
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