Anyone watching the USA England game? I love women's football.
The general ball control and technique is excellent. It's a game built on two-touch football, and the relative lack of height compared to the male game means more focus is placed on passing and finding the space rather than target men. Similarly, the lower speed of players means the ball is ideally played to feet. If you go down the male leagues, teams will generally peddle in big target men and then a pacy player or two who are needed to 'unlock' oppositions, due to the physicality of the game. Women's football is at a much lower tempo and is more akin to 5-a-side; it's possession-based and space-focused, meaning a more pleasant brand of football in which passes are accrued and teams move as a unit, bypassing the scrappy 'hoofball' nature which plagues male games. The early work of female football was a little too new for my tastes, but when the Sport really came into its own in '83, I think the whole game now has a clear, crisp style, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the industry a big boost. As it's women's football most people probably don't watch the football, but they should, because it's not just about the equality of genders, and the importance of technique, it's also a personal statement about football itself.