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After underground women's football clubs started appearing in Spain around 1970, one of its instigators, Rafael Muga, decided to create a national team. It was an unofficial project as football was considered an unsuitable sport for women by both the Royal Spanish Football Federation and National Movement 's Women's Section , which organized ...
1920 – The All-Philadelphia team, the first American women's field hockey team, was denied entry to the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. They played, however,in an English tournament but did not win either game. [41] 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad, held in Monaco, was the first international women's sports event.
The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, currently known as the Liga F [a] (finetwork Liga F for sponsorship reasons), is the highest level of league competition for women's football in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of the men's La Liga, and it is organized by the Liga Profesional Femenina de Fútbol (LPFF). As one league of ...
The most talked-about moment in women’s soccer last year, and indeed for the past several years, wasn’t a goal, nor a piece of skill, nor anything that happened during a match. It was an ...
Carmona, 23, scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over England on Aug. 20 that gave Spain its first World Cup title. After the game, she was informed of her father's death, the team said.
The Spanish federation created a women’s soccer department, then essentially ignored it. Ángel María Villar, its three-decade president beginning in 1988, appointed his buddy, Quereda, to lead ...
Five Spanish clubs compete for the 1902 Copa de la Coronación, which was unofficially the first Copa del Rey. The first Brazilian football league, Campeonato Paulista, is won by São Paulo Athletic Club. The first North American football association (geographically South American but affiliated to CONCACAF) is formed: the Guyana Football ...
Spain leads its Women's Nations League group with six points, three more than both Sweden and Italy. It plays at Italy on Friday and against Switzerland on Tuesday.