Alex Scott: The Future of Women's Football
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2022
- Former England international Alex Scott looks at the explosion in popularity of women’s football and asks what the future holds for the game she loves. Women’s football is the fastest growing female sport in the world. With wages on the rise and multi-million pound broadcasting deals being agreed, this summer’s European Championships in England are set to be a watershed moment for the game. Traveling to Barcelona, Alex witnesses a seminal moment in the sport’s history as a world-record 91,000 people pack the Nou Camp for the women’s Champions League match between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Keen to know if that growth is sustainable, Alex seeks the views of some of the sport’s biggest names such as Chelsea manager, Emma Hayes, England Lionesses captain Leah Williamson and Chelsea defender Jess Carter.Alex hears how Reading’s WSL player, Emma Mitchell, is juggling being a new mum and a top-flight footballer, with maternity rights only recently being introduced for players.
Meeting other Women’s Super League players, Alex learns about the challenges they still face, exploring the lack of diversity in the women’s game and the ongoing issues with social media abuse.
This is a pivotal time for women’s football and in order to find out if the game she loves is in safe hands, Alex flies to Switzerland to speak to Uefa and travels around the UK, meeting experts across the industry, including agents, investors, international stars and former players, to hear how far the game has come - and look at its incredible potential for the future. - Sport
As a 28-year-old American guy that played professional soccer and is now an Air Force pilot, I have been absolutely thrilled by the growth of the womens game. Vastly entertaining and professional.
I forecast some 5 years ago that it would be up there with the men's game. I was mocked by the haters! And I don't think these men know how stupid their comments are, which implies how stupid they must be!
I'm not
@@freshyboy692 and yet you're here watching women's football related content, fan behavior 😂
@@dinerouk womens football is shit lol
@@harleyquiinnnnYeah, coz I want to tell the bbc to stop posting womens football because nobody watches it
I love you Alex, I think you're awesome. Don't accept anyone's criticism because you're one of the best TV presenters ever.
Such a good doc on the womens game. More people need to see this! Big up Alex 🙌
As a life long (60 + years) Chelsea supporter, I'm completely addicted to watching the women's team play now .. sometimes more so that watching the men's team. The flow, skills and commitment of the women players is fantastic and compelling to watch. I can easily see it reaching the heights of the men's game, in time, and I'm 100% behind getting it there. Well done and massive respect to the likes of Alex Scott and Emma Hayes unbelievable success against the odds and very much the best role models for all young people .. of all genders. I'm humbled by the achievements of those who have promoted and developed the women's game to where it is now, you have my complete respect and thanks .. for what that's worth.
Just watched the whole tournament WOW can we have more of that. Like Wrighty said, get it on the school curriculum and in another ten years we will see British girls from all walks of life shining on the world stage of the beautiful game. Great documentary by the way.
Very well done documentary. I am a Manchester United women's fan and love the game. Hope it continues to grow as time goes on. Such an exciting game...
As a 72 year old Canadian male, I am an addict for the women’s game. The game is exciting to watch and has vastly improved over the past few years. Barcelona has set a standard that all others need to strive towards.
sry they are still pretenders to the mighty Olympique Lyonnais
ur weird you mate
Crazy to me to see so many men's egos drop on social media talking down on women and their game, whilst they have mothers, sisters, girlfriends that they wouldn't want people shatting on them.
A very interesting documentary.
I myself have been a coach for both athletics and women's soccer teams since 40 years ago.
Following Liverpool FC, S.S. Lazio both men's and women's teams.
I am of course interested in how their practices and matching of the teams develop and work every day.
Right now I follow the European Championship in England and watch every game.
Very impressed with England and my favorite women's coach - Sarina Wiegman. Has Dutch total football as a basic idea.
The difference in how the clubs develop their women's football compared to, for example, Sweden, is that in, for example, England, Spain, Italy, Germany and Holland, the men's leagues have been professional since the beginning. The clubs have a professional handling of players who have this as a job. The clubs know how to manage the environment at the men's.
Therefore, even though they have a long way to go for the ladies, this is handled as if it were their job, their profession.
They get to know what it takes to train and become good and good.
It is hard work that counts. Hard work with everything.
There is a difference in Sweden, because professional football has never been accepted there. We are still at an amateur level.
Therefore, the attitude, even at the highest level, is that it is still the most priority to have fun and enjoy being together and train a few days a week without having demands on you to perform. why should you perform when you don't get paid for it? That's how the jargon is even in the highest series.
Same thing with the quality of the workouts. It's boring to practice the basics of football, passing and such.
Then you train on fun things instead.
In addition, the jargon of the women's national team is to take a stand for left-wing political events, rather than to embrace training to get better.
I’ve been watching womens football for over ten years but as a rugby fan it wasn’t a priority. As time has past, more exposure, the skill factor and passion has changed my view of the game. Womens football is now my first game, I started at NWSL in the US and now find the WSL the best league because of diversity, ethnicity, larger and wider range of international clubs and countries. Now a passionate Chelsea fan and England is my team. Go England!!!! Fm NZ xx
Thank you for sharing this!!
This Euros tournament is going to be awesome! IMO, 6 sides have a good shot of bringing it home!
Why oh why! This stupid woman is turning the discussion in to a race thing? Has she forgotten that this is a European white nation and not Africa? If she wants to see black players she is free to watch Cristal Palace, even better watch France national football team consisting of 9 black players an 2 whites, no much diversity there either. I am sure that some of those players are eligible to play for Africans national team. Saturday at 10.20pm on BBC one, there was a program discussing the future of women football, 3 people involved, one white two blacks, again she could not resist deviating in to a black and white argument
It’s coming home
Watch them grow, gonna be special
Great doc wish I could have played football at school and happy future generations of girls are now allowed & able to thrive
This is amazing for young girls and women's football. Come on England. Love watching the Euro football . Women's football is the best. Shame we didn't have this in my time . X Thanks Alex. Loved the video . Your doing great in your new career xx
women football is terrible standard dont lie please it is far from the best
@@stevieC11Hanworth women football is focused on playing with the heart rather than playing for the money, in that regard it is the best. and of course the quality is not the same, they were still banned 50 years ago for crying out loud and many first teams still dont get basic income so they can train fully professional.
I think here in Germany we have 4 clubs that are fully professional, Wolfsburg, Bayern, Frankfurt, Turbine Potsdam, and they dominate the whole Liga bc the others work something else full time 😭 That's why it matters to support them, the change is happening now.
@@harleyquiinnnn okay I respect your point if view :) Good luck with growing the game in Germany.
@@stevieC11Hanworth thank u :) i love watching the english womens clubs too tho, arsenal, man united etc. u have so many good clubs there. 🤩
@@harleyquiinnnn glad to hear you love WSL, it is going from strength to strength they just need more women to attend sadly women do not show much support for their footballers over here compared with men attending men’s football
Keep up the good work Alex scott
Gracias 😍👍🔥👌❤🇲🇽🇬🇧
So So beautifull! I wish i had all of this being shared and being done when i was growing up...certainly i had been a professional football player. I'm really really happy that all these girls have the opportunity to grow up like this, and have all these opportunities. Thank you to all the ones out there that are related to this. Keep working, do thins. talk about it, sharing, beeing seen.
thank u so much for posting!!
thank you for posting this!!
Back in the early 2000s I was on a trip to Chicago and went to find a game to play in at NWU. I joined in with some of the Uni men's team, but the highlight was watching a match between the NWU women and another Uni. I couldn't believe how good the women were: their skill, physique, positional sense: they all seemed to know their jobs so well and perform really well. Unlike the women team at our UK uni, these American women were tall, athletic, strong in the tackle with excellent balance and aggression. They could strike the ball so well. And the setup was incredible back then - better than our Uni men's team. Everyone had full kit on, there were coaches and medical staff, loads of substitutes and excellent equipment. And that was an amateur match. I'm so pleased to see women in England do so well and winning the Euros was just incredible, but all the matches they won were riveting. I'm looking forward to the next England women's march than the men's (who always underperform and disappoint).
Diverity is a good thing but surely talent, ability and quality in players must come first. So ground roots is where this should start and it will happen.
Is there any evidence that talent and ability don’t come first?? Are you implying that people who are not white cannot play football professionally?
@@CMJames Of course not, and I don’t appreciate the accusation. My opinion is as valid as yours ; talent and ability regardless of colour 👍
I agree Steve. Although lack of diversity is certainly an issue, if predominantly white girls get scouted, then they get scouted, it's as simple as that. You're good enough, you're in the team. Has nothing to do with colour or race.
I am an American male and I love football. I find the women's game more exciting than the men's game. If I had a choice between women's and men's football I will choose the women every time hands down. I love the WSL. In my opinion it is the best league and is only getting better as time goes on. Excited to see what heights the women's game will reach into the future...
@joebirdwelljr629 - You poor chap!
Love Alex Scott ❤️
The WSL should be played in the summer, after the mens season. The good weather would bring out the crowds.
What do you do when the Olympics, world cup and euros are on? A women's season is too long to fit in after a men's season. And finally it would mean the WSL was out of line with the champions League.
ALEX YOU ARE SUPER AWESOME,,ALWAYS WATCHED YOU PLAYING
No one cares
this is amazing
It's rlly not
@@freshyboy692 boy are you ok? You need a hug?
@@myduyen774 yes please
@@freshyboy692 oh god will do that. Hope you will be fine xx
Women’s football is the future! Well done ladies!!
Alex Scott, she's so gorgeous it's ridiculous.
Great piece of journalism Ms. Scott
Bros holding tears when reading the comments
Like what the girls were saying if a lady scores a worldies they will question the keeper but if the male side did it it would be the opposite
Why do we keep having to set caps based on race, if the player is good enough, then they will play.
Alex ❤️
I'm glad to say i started to watch girls football in 2012 and watch Man city. I was shocked at the hatred shown at that time from some men to women and replied to the contrary in support for them some years for which some years I received hostile replies. Glad to say things have improved since England's great displays recently.
IM a new fan of womans football rugby is my thing sorry lol im loving it final tomorrow england germany ??? awsome have taking the wk offf ???
Very good programme and as uncomfortable for some to hear the subject of diversity being brought up it’s right for the question to be asked along side the success the Englands Womens team are having. My daughter plays at a high level imo there are a number of factors behind the lack of people of colour.. (diversity)… We of colour in the girls/womens game know. When you see the English mens teams from U15 to first team there is representation. When you see the French Womens National team it’s obvious girls want to play …. So what’s the difference in English Womens football… Look at Netball, Athletics why is it so different in football…
Well, for a sports presenter to comment on ppls races at a sporting event is inappropriate.
If they want to express their sociological beliefs about race and society at another time, that's their right. But it is inappropriate for presenters to comment on ppls race.
Hi Alex can we see your shoes on football focus hun xx 😀
Very good but the best players does not play in WSL.
Some of them do and some don't.
Alex is just amazing
U look stunning as always on football focus some boots and leather trousers one week would be good mwah stu 😊 xx
emma looks stunning. the we one is a cutie
Always downplaying the achievements of the Spanish team(s)
I like the bit about the diversity of the female game, because in a diverse country like England it is a bit embarrassing how white the England female team is compared to the men's teams and other teams sports in England. And is football popular with black girls too. It was refreshing that the English FA was honest and recognise the problem, rather than get defensive or be in denial. They just said we made a mistake in putting female development academies in white suburban areas and offered no support for the players outside these catchment areas so basically ignored the black girls in the urban cities. That is why England team players all come from only 3 or 4 cities. Now they have to change this because I feel black girls will take England's game to the next level, because I think France are better and they did not ignore the black girls in their country.
It may also have a class component as well as this would affect disadvantaged girls from urban areas. So it may end up being a middle class sport.
what drivel and racist agaibbst white people
@Bare Knuckle bigots like you just want to defend the the whiteness of the team, but FA have admitted they put the elite development hubs across England in non-diverse white only areas, meaning only white girls got access to the elite coaching that would produce elite players and ignored girls from more diverse inner cities and done nothing to get girls from these more diverse inner cities into the elite coaching hubs. It is common sense that if you are only going to give white young girls elite coaching as kids, you are only going to get elite players who are only white. You comment feels like white people who said in the 1950 that NBA didn’t need to allow the Black players into the league for the first time, because the white players are automatically the best players. They let the black players into the NBA and now the league is 85% black players. It is just white peoples like you don’t want accept white people benefit from privilege. If the FA don’t give any black kids elite coaching of course you will find no black girls in the England team for women.
When England's men won the under 19s a few wks ago 11 of the 20 man squad were black/mixed race and over half the 1st team despite only being 5% of the population.... No discussion about 85% of the population not being correctly represented.
Or Asian representation strangely even though they make up a larger proportion of England than black people do.
Too many people are focusing on race in this country today and we're going to end up like the states at this rate.
@@dontgivamonkeyz the problem with the country is too many white people are completely in denial about racism due to deliberately poor history taught in schools where colonialism is buried because of the shame of it so British white people are so ignorant about race they gaslight anyone who talks about the more subtle forms of racism Britain excels in. The FA have admitted the reason there are only white women is they made the discriminative mistake of putting all the elite coaching centres for women’s soccer in white areas and ignoring young more diverse talent in the major cities like London, Birmingham and other very diverse cities
Loved this doc until it got to the nonsense of “diversity”. Players should be picked on merit and the best players should be picked regardless of race! Not forgetting that England is a majority white country!
Yeah, racism is a bit more complex than that. Try to think critically, even though your low IQ limits you
So what if England is a majority white country? Have you seen the men?
I love football my daughter plays football At a high level and really happy how the women are doing but there is a problem here. So as upsetting for some people that the subject of diversity was brought up it needs to be addressed because there is a silent problem … that’s very visible…
@@AJ-cv9zf And no one has a problem with the team being disproportionately represented by black people so why the problem with an all white team?
@@robbiewizz658 when England's men won the under 19s a few wks ago 11 of the 20 man squad were black/mixed race and over half the 1st team despite only being 5% of the population.... No discussion about 85% of the population not being correctly represented.
Or Asian representation strangely even though they make up a larger proportion of England than black people do.
Too many people are focusing on race in this country today and we're going to end up like the states at this rate.
you don't gey equality in men's football or any sport its if your sellable to the public, that goes for all sport look at Emma Raducanu its not just how good your are mores the pity, but i do love watching the womens sports they are so technically good
It's a different game entirely, England women would lose to Rochdale if they were given a 3 goal start however that doesn't mean it's not entertaining it is just so very different.
Woman should be allowed to play in men's football if they are good enough, there should be no bias towards gender and everyone is equal. It is so patronising when someone says she is brilliant then finishes the sentence of with for a woman.
I will say that lately there has been a very imbalance intake of women in media covering men's football it's almost like you have got no chance at getting the job if you are a man that has played at the top of their game and is a household name because the positions has been taken by women who make comments and judgements about players that they couldn't live with, I'm all for women being part of the punditry on TV but it has got silly now, last night England V France the was a female presenter interviewing two female ex players about a men's world cup quarter final and that is disgraceful and discriminating against men, If it was the other way around there would be an uproar and I would be one of those arguing against the discrimination of women.
Let women's football be women's football and let men's football be men's football a bit of crossover is fine but artificially forcing it down peoples throats will make it a laughing stock and have no respect.
They had 4 men in the studio in the England v France match.
@@thewomensfootballarchive165 And 3 women on the pitch, if your trying to say that women are not being over represented in the men's game then you are wrong
You claimed having three women was discriminatory againt men i was pointing out that the majority were men. So if there is any geneder based discrimination it is the other way round.
I never said discriminated , I said over represented
@@thewomensfootballarchive165 When I watch womens football it's main representation is women and rightly so and I would argue about over representation of men If that was the case. There is men's football and women's football and they are not the same game otherwise there would just be football, I seriously hope that one day there are women that are good enough to play alongside and against men and hope that any rules that prevent this are deemed sexist. There was a case in Canada where a teamed signed a women and she wasn't allowed to play because of rules.
When I say over represented I mean that If you look at the mainstream media today and compare it to 2 years ago then just about every single job in that time has gone to a woman, representation to sex's that play or have played football to a reasonable level ( adult senior )is massively outnumbered by men over women by a factor of probably 50 plus.
Women's football is great and really entertaining and the future is bright but when things like the Australian national ladies team who were ranked 4th in the world at the time were well beat by a boys under 15 side happen please don't tell me it's the same game or the women are just as good because that is obviously rubbish.
No disrespect but womens football has moved on so much and so have the standards of opposition that I doubt Alex would get in todays England team even in her heyday.