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Women's football is too middle-class and that's a problem
In the 2010s, more than 700 football pitches across the country disappeared.It was an unseen consequence of austerity – councils facing funding cuts were forced to abandon them, with many sold off to private firms and others falling into disrepair. In places like inner-city London and Manchester, they have never fully been replaced. So as the demand for women’s and girls’ teams shot up, a trend developed: the cost of the game and the spaces avai…
No sport grows faster than women's football. As the exponents welcome the development, so great are their worries about an identity loss – rightly so.
Women still earn less in professional football than men, but: It was not always self-evident that women in Germany can play football professionally at all.
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