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Women's football in Africa / Chuka Onwumechili.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Onwumechili, Chuka A., author.
- Series:
- Women, sport and physical activity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soccer for women--Africa.
- Soccer for women.
- Soccer for women--Political aspects--Africa.
- Sports for women--Political aspects--Africa.
- Sports for women.
- Soccer for women--Africa--Religious aspects.
- Sports for women--Africa--Religious aspects.
- Sports--Africa--History.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2024.
- Contents:
- African Women's Football and Early History: Dark Ages of Extreme Sexism and Denial
- The colonial grounding inhibiting women's football
- Women resist but misgivings arise
- The colonial ban
- Encroachment on men's preserve
- FIFA's Recognition and Rise of Women's Football in Africa
- FIFA's recognition
- Developing national teams
- Specific actions in Africa's regions that impacted development
- Developing the game in different parts of the continent
- Questioning testosterone levels
- The Challenge of the Girl-child and Social Obstacles in Playing Football
- Sociocultural issues
- Religious issues
- Sexual harassment issues
- Homophobia
- Rationale for the Early Domination of Nigeria and Ghana in Women's Football
- Nigeria
- Recruitment activities
- The local competitions
- Challenges faced by women footballers in the country
- Ghana
- Ghana: Preceding activity markers
- The local league
- Challenges faced by women football in Ghana.
- The Emergence of South African, Equator-Guinean, and Cameroonian Women's National Football Teams
- South Africa
- The rise of Banyana Banyana
- The corporate support
- The gender issues
- Equatorial Guinea
- The issues of naturalization
- Cameroun
- Information Classification: General
- Developing women's football
- New Wave of Football Equilibrium Among Women's Teams
- Ivory Coast
- The Clementine Toure Effect
- Local competition
- Morocco
- National team development
- Hope of Arabs
- Senegal
- Early period and national team development
- Overcoming challenges: Sexism, coaching
- Zambia
- Early period
- Testing challenges and sexual abuse issues
- Academy and Club Football: Focal Point and Plateauing of Competition Among Women
- Families and encouraging girl-child to play football
- Academy for girls' football
- Transferring girls from academies to outside Africa
- Club football
- Plateauing of competition
- African Women at Football's Global Stage and Challenges
- Global performance of teams
- FIFA's ranking system for women football
- Migration of women footballers within and outside Africa
- Availability of women footballers for international duty
- Persistent Issues Facing Women's Football: Social Inhibitions, Homophobia, and Discrimination
- Impostor's Syndrome and the persistent inhibition about women's football
- FAs and damning women's football
- Persistent issues of homophobia
- Equality of pay & compensation.
- The Future of Women's Football in Africa
- Rapid development of teams across the continent
- Fans/fandom for women's football in Africa
- CAF's role in quickening development
- The key is major financing of the game.
- Women's access to football administration
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781040025963 (electronic bk.)
- 104002596X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99996699977
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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