The Forgotten XI

Women begin holding rogue World Cups in 1970. By the mid-80s, they are storming the gates of FIFA demanding that the women’s game be recognized. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation is on the verge of creating a Women’s FIFA. Something had to be done. Follow the show on Twitter ! Share this episode! Join the conversation, see PHOTOS OF THE TEAMS mentioned in this episode and, if you like, help...

In 1971, FIFA lifts the ban on women playing football. But they don’t do anything to help the women’s game. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation is having none of that. Follow the show on Twitter ! Share this episode! Join the conversation, see PHOTOS OF THE TEAMS mentioned in this episode and, if you like, help with research. It’s Free!: The Forgotten XI on Slack The NWSL App for Android Sign...

By 1970, women are playing football all over the world, but FIFA is not sanctioning matches. FIFA doesn’t seem to care. Someone else is paying attention though, and they set out to make history. The 1970 Women’s World Cup Final The 1971 WWC Final with more than 110,000 fans Follow the show on Twitter ! Share this episode! Join the conversation, see PHOTOS OF THE TEAMS mentioned in this episode and...

One hundred years ago, Australian women start playing football. Over the last century, they slowly and quietly, with little help from anyone, became one of the best sides in the world. Check out Never Say Die: The 100 Year, Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Soccer. Follow the show on Twitter ! Share this episode! Join the conversation, see PHOTOS OF THE TEAMS mentioned in this episode and, i...

Germany was a dangerous place in the 1930s. The German economy was suffering under the Great Depression and German politics was becoming toxic. The Nazis are about to come to power. Men fought in the streets over politics. In the middle of all that, women took to the pitch to play football. And Austrian women attempt to do the impossible, something that still hasn’t been done in women’s soccer any...

“If you don’t have any collective memory, you cannot fight because you don’t have any history before you that could help you.” Marco Giani Marco Giani joins us from Milan to tell us more about GFC Milan, the Female Italian Partizans and much more. Many thanks to Marco Giani for all his research on GFC Milan, follow him on twitter @calciatrici1933 Follow Forgotten XI on Twitter here @forgottenxi Jo...

In 1932, a group of high school girls play a soccer match in Italy. But this is Mussolini’s Italy. These young women are challenging not just sexism, but fascism. In so doing, they set off a series of remarkable events which will forever change Italy and women’s football around the world. Many thanks to Marco Giani for all his research on GFC Milan, follow him on twitter @calciatrici1933 Follow Fo...

Women’s football in France begins in 1917, and the French teams are a bit more organized than the English teams. What makes a club more than a team? Alice Milliat, pioneer of women’s sport and women’s soccer and the Women’s Olympic Games. And, a familiar end… Follow the show on Twitter ! Share this episode! Join the conversation, see PHOTOS OF THE TEAMS mentioned in this episode and, if you like,...

Today, we look at the long history of the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC and  their impact on women’s sports. And I’m joined by Mike MacDonald of EPL Pod fame to discuss the eternal question: Who is the greatest of all time, Messi, Ronaldo, or Lily Parr? Mike MacDonald’s EPLpod is here. Gail’s Newsham’s Book is here and her web site with more on the Dick, Kerr Ladies http://dickkerrladies.com/ Youtub...

Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC was the most famous and successful women’s team in history. Founded in 1917, they continued to play after the Ban. For nearly another 50 years. I’m joined today by Gail Newsham, author of In a League of their Own: Dick, Kerr Ladies 1917-1965 and Ruth Harker, of the US Women’s National Team. Gail’s Book is here !!!!!  and her web site with more on the Dick, Kerr Ladies h...

Why did the English Football Association ban women from playing? Coal.  Some British women get the right to vote in 1918, but by 1921 female football players are stepping in to the political arena in a big way. And after the ban, these defiant young women continue to play and spread the game abroad. Within days of the Ban, they form the English Ladies Football Association and create the first...

In WWI, men in Britain went to war and women went to work. And just as working men had taken to football, working women now took to the beautiful game. Thousands of women’s teams were formed in England. And eventually, a championship tournament was created, the Munitionettes’ Cup. Women’s football became the national past-time. The women are super stars! But then, sexism steps in and ruins the par...

In this first episode of the Forgotten XI, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of Women's Football , 1863 and the first Association Soccer. And we'll take a look at the very first professional women's teams, all the way back in 1881. These teams were controversial in their day, more because people were close minded than because the women did anything controversial.  There are riots, pi...

Women have been playing association football, or soccer, for 150 years, just as long as the men. But people just keep forgetting or worse, bury their stories for decades.  Let's change that. Let's bring their stories back. This is just a taste of what we'll cover, because I need your help.  Have a listen, and join me, Chris McGlynn, on Slack.  Forgotten XI on Slack Bob Gerics music...