Generation Change | Kick Starting a Movement in Women's Grass-Roots Football
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Fleur and her Goal Diggers Team are redefining a generation in women’s football and kicking sexism into touch.
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I am Having an issue with my club they dont see that women bring the sponsors and the spectators i want to grow the club women football area what can i do to change their mind set
Great video, thanks for posting about this. It's just a shame that people feel offended surrounding the concept that football should be enjoyed by everyone. But keep up the good work!
@@thevoice938 Could you point out the moaning in this video?
@@thevoice938 Do you not believe that happened? Is she not allowed to say that? If that did happen shouldn't we tell people that it isn't acceptable?
Get together with other country's teams! The U.S. Women's team winning record is treated like dirt! While the men's team loses and loses they are paid more than twice as much and celebrated like heroes! Imagine the media frenzy and all the surrounding chaos if the Womans team challenged the Men's team publicly! 3 out of 5! (say, for charity!) They would have to play! No way the men could get out of it! Oh, what a Worldwide game changer! Win or lose for Women it's a Gold medal win! The whole world would be watching and the standards would be forced to change! But ... The Men who 'own' it would never 'allow' it! The Women's team would win tho the men would bring on their best game. Ego and stress would finish them.
Lol.
When they beat a men's team come back to me
Hi BestBloke, as the video mentions, Goal Diggers accommodates all abilities, so we aren't trying to say that we are 'better' than anyone else, but to shine a light on the positive things we all get out of playing the game, and that we want it to be easier for more people to play football
That would be hard seeing as men and womans football games are separate
I used to love playing football until a serious injury at 28 brought it to an end. My wife and I had two daughters and it came as a pleasant surprise that my youngest daughter started playing football. I ended up helping run her team with another Dad and the bulk of the girls stuck with the team for around 10 years until they finished high school. Over that time I was amazed how good some of the players were. I think football is a great game for girls/women and unlike the boys and men who seem largely driven by their egos the girls and women just seem to enjoy playing. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the England ladies team gets stronger and stronger over the next few years.
Lol. No one is stopping you from playing, but similarly, no one is going to make people watch you.
Hi Gravitas, thankfully no one is stopping us from playing now (except the pandemic) but lots of our members didn’t have the opportunity to play football when we were younger, so we are working to change that for the next generation!
@@lilygrant6333 When I was a kid any old patch of grass would do, plenty of opportunity if all you want to do is play football.
@@lilygrant6333 you dont need multi million pound training stadiums to kick a ball around a field
@@lilygrant6333 I got to play football as a kid tho, among the boys too, you just gotta show ya got skill so they accept ya, its the same for the boys too
Excellent video! Well said!
I love the idea. But why name yourselves the Gold Diggers. It's seems a bit weird.
Seems they are called "Goal" Diggers, it just sounds like Gold
Well Done!!!
it is going to take another decade of training for women to be taken remotely seriously, Womens football at a premier level is absolute garbage , it is unsuitable for females as a premier sport but not as a fitness or social activity
The recent world cup was proof of the inequality of talent world wide, usa winning 13-0 against a bunch of street cleaners and waitresses, people missing the most basic of kicks or passes. Look at tennis and the level of skill in the womens game, despite not being up to par of the mens it is at the very least competent and competitve, womens' Football just is not there.
My god the amount of buzzwords, there is absolutely no such thing as non binary.
Some bull
Lol the comments seem to be quite unanimous, this is bollocks
Hi Archie, I feel like the negative response to the video actually speaks volumes about how strangely offended people get by us playing football! It is a shame as our access to pitches is negatively affected by these opinions, and personally, I really enjoy playing football and it is really good for my mind and my fitness. I hope that you agree that we should be able to play a sport we love without being laughed at!
@@lilygrant6333 I in fact agree completely and see nothing wrong at all with women playing football. I think what people are offended by is not the idea but more the way in which this video portrayed the issue. It is overly political and attempts to attack men, which not necessarily wrong, is not a great way to gain any sympathy or put across a good argument.
Definitely women should be allowed to play whatever sport they want.
@@archiestirling856 Hi Archie, I'm glad that we have some common ground to agree on! I hope that you can see past your issues with the messaging and enjoy the overall message: football is a wonderful sport for building communities!
@@lilygrant6333 I completely agree!
@@lilygrant6333 archie is right, womens football at a competitive level is complete and utter bobbins and in no way should be attempted to be held in the same breath as mens sport until you see a level familiar to that of Tennis, where it is competitive even though clearly not up there with federer etc. But they can actually physically play actual real higher level tennis as opposed to a hens night afternoon at the local park .
It was pretty unfair overall the ban to begin with, but it shows there is a long way for there to be any sort of real quality where it is not even up to par of local mens teams
No mate. It womens football. Get used to it. We're not entertained by your rebellious behaviour/ personality. Also there is no binary person. Its an illusion that you have the luxury of experiencing. It will not be my experience.
It's not that football isn't for women, it's that the majority of women aren't interested in football, which includes womens football. You can play what sport you want, who's stopping you?
I know it’s hard to believe that something as inoffensive as playing football can be met with animosity, but unfortunately the comments section on this video alone give some insight into some of the barriers and unkind words we face when playing a nice game of football!
@@lilygrant6333 Sticks and Stones, you don't have to give strangers the power to hurt you. Get over yourselves and play what you like.
@@bigmeknurgle Hello, thanks for this and I completely agree that we shouldn't be discouraged by negative words. We would love to play what we like but unfortunately don't have the pitch space at the moment for our 200 members, which is why we are campaigning to raise awareness around issues grassroots teams have with finding pitch space
@@lilygrant6333 It's all about supply and demand. Raise awareness all you like, but don't act like you're victims of some systemic sexist oppression just because less people (including women) tune in to womens football.
You will get laughed at if you wear your kit walking down the street 😂
I see plenty of men walking home from their games in their kit and haven’t noticed anyone laughing
@@lilygrant6333 if I saw anyone walking down the street in kit I would laugh, if they’ve been playing then that’s different
Haha ! Yeah I’ve never known anyone to wear their kit to the pub unless they’ve been playing 😂
Not necessarily true...