women's football Archives ⋆ An Old International

Some light among the gloom

For weeks, I’ve been thinking about packing it in: this blog has had its time, it’s never been a big thing, more on the side with a particular look on football of someone who has lived and played in three countries, wrote a book about it and often felt that football is a lot of…

Les Belles de Paris

Rarely has women’s football been touched upon here but a piece in the L’Equipe magazine about the PSG Ladies offered a good intro for the topic. The men’s team are the focus of the media since their take over by the Qatari Investment Authority in May 2011. [typography font=”Crimson Text” size=”18″ size_format=”px”]Financial Gulf [/typography] While…

Lucky and Plucky

This is the best way to describe Japan’s historic success at the Women’s Football World Cup last night in Frankfurt, Germany. In a game that saw them often outplayed by the United States’ Women’s Soccer Team, Japan never gave up and with some astute resilience they fought their way back into the game and to…

Don’t believe the hype

Public Enemy certainly have nothing on their minds with football but it is a fitting headline for the next big tournament due to start in a few days time: The Women’s Football World Cup in Germany. While the media attention has been rising over the last weeks, where there was some neat product placement on…