{"id":25748,"date":"2025-07-27T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25748\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:29:08","slug":"euro-2025-final-build-up-as-england-face-spain-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25748\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2025 final : Build-up as England face Spain in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Football’s not for girls’, England fan recalls being toldpublished at 11:18 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

11:18 BST<\/p>\n

England v Spain (17:00 BST)<\/p>\n

Kathryn Armstrong
reporting from Basel<\/p>\n

\"AImage caption, <\/p>\n

Louisa is looking forward to seeing her favourite player, Alex Greenwood, take to the pitch on Sunday<\/p>\n

Many of the England fans I have been speaking to in Basel
\nthis weekend have been telling me about the barriers they themselves or their
\nloved ones have faced when it comes to playing women\u2019s
\nfootball.<\/p>\n

Louisa, who is from Crew and is a big Alex Greenwood fan,
\ntells me she was fobbed off by a teacher when she was at school and wanted to play
\nfootball because she didn\u2019t like netball.<\/p>\n

“He said no and kept making up excuses, like \u2018we don\u2019t have
\nenough staff’,” she tells me.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn\u2019t give up, so eventually the teacher just said to
\nme \u2018football\u2019s not for girls\u2019, so I just accepted that and assumed that women
\nand girls couldn\u2019t play football.”<\/p>\n

Tehya,17, who is from Kent, says there was no girl\u2019s
\nfootball team at her school and so the only way she could play was kicking a
\nball around with her brother.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Alex, who is from London and says his aunt was
\nlaughed at for wanting to play the sport when she was young.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people forget that women\u2019s football was banned in
\nEngland for 50 years,” he tells me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Football’s not for girls’, England fan recalls being toldpublished at 11:18 British Summer Time 11:18 BST England v…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-25748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}