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“The Fifa Women’s World Cup France 2019 is going to be the biggest women’s sporting event of the year”- Sarai Bareman (Fifa’s chief women’s football officer)The FIFA 2019 World Cup (FIFA WC) has been running from the 7th June to 7th July 2019 in France, where 24 countries face each other in a competition of 52

It’s been a long journey, but there’s still a way to go…

Traditionally sport has been dominated by men both in participation and in governance. Athletes often need to be strong, fast, competitive and combative and women are not encouraged to adopt these characteristics.

The father of the Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, believed the inclusion