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Sep 2014
27m 3s

The Future of Women's Football

Bbc World Service
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Could women's football provide a new, more sustainable model to the men's game? Yvonne Macken hears from young women in Trinidad and Tobago, Iceland, Brazil, Japan, the UK, the USA and Africa.

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