Megan Rapinoe is a true inspiration. Never one to shy away from her responsibility to use her platform for good, she's experienced the growth in the women's game first hand and knows it's in a better place than ever before.
You have to do it on the field, then come off and fight for it again.
Being told she “couldn’t” only made Lucy Bronze more determined to show that she could. She's had to fight every step of the way to make it to where she is today and carries that same spirit with her every time she steps onto the field.
Every time I get told you can’t do this because you’re a girl, I’ll just go and prove that I can and I’ll do it even better than you can imagine.
Drawing on her tough Brittany character, Eugénie Le Sommer fought against the idea that soccer wasn't for girls to become the player she is today. This is why she now works with other young girls to encourage them and help them realize their own dreams of becoming a star player one day.
Yes I am a girl, yes I can juggle, I can score goal, it was my defiance in order to challenge the way people looked at me.
Dzsenifer Marozsán didn’t even know that women’s soccer existed when she first started convincing her brother to let her play with the other boys. But when you’re as soccer obsessed as Dzsenifer, you’re not going to let that stop you. A lot’s changed since then, but she knows it’s only the beginning.
The biggest challenge was trying to convince my brother to take me with him to the pitch, but after a few weeks, months, we were one team.
Nadia Nadim has seen the powerful effects of soccer first hand. When the Afghanistan-born striker found herself in a refugee camp on the other side of the world at the age of 10, she couldn’t have imagined the path she’d go on to forge for herself. Nadim is living proof of what can be achieved in even the most difficult circumstances.
The women’s game has been growing like crazy, I feel this is just the start.
