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Modern Day Soccer is Created
There was a meeting at the Freemasons Tavern in London, England. They discussed the rules that would be common amoung all teams and players. -
First Woman's soccer team
Dick Kerr Ladies F.C. - Army woman who made ammunition. The games raised money for the war. -
Game vs. St. Helen Ladies
Suddenly getting attention, the teams drew a crowd of over 53,000 spectators. The stadiums average crowd size at the time was only 29,000. There was even an estimated 10-15,000 spectators outside the stadium once cthe place was full. -
English Football Association Bans Woman's Soccer :(
England felt the ladies soccer was getting too much attention and would be more important than male sports, so they decided to ban wiman's soccer. -
First Woman's team in the USA
4 Woman's soccer teams were created in the US to see if the sport took off. It only lasted 2 full season and wasn't very sucsessful. But this was the spark to woman's soccer to come. -
Title IX
This made womens sports a cultural norm in our society and made it so men's and woman's sports would be funded equilally. -
US Woman's Ntional Team's First Game
They played the Italian's and though a good game lost 1-0. -
FIFA Womans World Cup
12 teams were represented in this first ever womans world cup. China hosted these games. The US won! -
US Womans Soccer is added to the Olympics
The US won this first year. They were the biggest and best at the time but other competitors were getting better. -
Womans United Soccer Association
First league where woman were paid as professional athletes. This league came to be when the US Beat China in the 1999 World Cup. -
Woman's US Soccer Association Ended
After playing 3 full seasons the US lost 100 million dollars so they cut the whole program. -
Womans Professional Soccer League First Game
5 teams come together with tremendous talent and become widley popular.
