Why more than 20 percent of the WorldCup’s players developed their games in America.
But women continued to play, on the margins and at risk of provoking hostility and violence by those who felt threatened by the “transgressive act” of women playing a contact sport intended only for men. When women in Europe and Latin America defiantly began to organize and compete in their own World Cups in the early 1970s, American women were nowhere to be found. While U.S.
, an attendance record for women’s soccer that stands to this day. But in all that time, there was no real lasting, well-resourced, high-level women’s league—anywhere.Then came Title IX. When Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972, no one marked the occasion as the catalyst for launching the world’s best women’s soccer league. But no law has been more important to the global development of women’s soccer than Title IX because nothing like the U.S.
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