Women’s Football
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Hope Powell: The First Full-Time Manager
Hope Powell was tasked with overhauling the whole of women's football in this country, as well as managing England. She led her team to two World Cup tournaments and four European championships. Four of the women's national squad are offered professional contracts, but they're worth just £16,000 per year. As long as they're still dependent on full or part-time work elsewhere, it's difficult to train intensively enough to compete against better-funded professional teams in Europe and the USA. There's a huge profile boost with the 2012 London Olympics, where Team GB puts forward its first-ever women's football team. But it seems, whenever women's football rises, something forces it back
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