US EditionIn Liberia’s version of baseball, there are no bats and no men
LIBERIA, JUL 18 – The National Kickball League was founded in 1994 to unite Liberians post-civil war and now serves as the nation’s second-most popular sport, mainly played by women but led by men.
- Liberia's National Kickball League for women was created in 1994 to unite people after the civil war and is led by men as coaches and referees.
- In the 1960s, an American volunteer with the Peace Corps teaching at a girls' school in Monrovia observed that the students did not participate in sports and tended to prefer kicking the ball, which led to the introduction of kickball in Liberia.
- The game follows baseball rules but uses a soccer ball kicked by players instead of bats, and it remains a women’s sport despite occasional male attendees at practice.
- A female athlete in her late twenties who has played kickball for a decade noted that while men occasionally join their practice sessions, they do not succeed against the women, and she struggles financially since her income is significantly lower than that of male athletes.
- League president Emmanuel Whea plans to expand kickball to men and other African countries, but the mission faces resource limits and cultural resistance to women coaching full time.
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In Liberia's version of baseball, there are no bats and no men
Kickball is beloved among women in Liberia, where many sporting activities are male-dominated. The sport in Liberia has the rules of baseball but there are no bats, and players kick a soccer ball instead of the larger, lightweight ball used in other places.
No bats and no males: Kickball is brushing up the nation of Liberia
The thud of a totally pitched spherical satisfying an efficient kick is an acquainted audio all through Liberia, the place kickball has truly developed proper right into a nationwide fixation. Professional gamer Perryline Jimmie, 23, symbolizes the sporting exercise’s energy, her sprints to very first base steadily met happy joys from her colleagues. An in depth relative to baseball, kickball is very valuable by women all through the West Africa…
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