Just over a week ago the face of Australian sport changed forever.
The long-awaited launch of the AFL Women’s League was met by tens of thousands of fans with open hearts — and opens lungs — cheering across boundary lines for four huge days of footy. Here’s what went down:
The women’s competition is already a welcome antidote to the boy’s club of it’s male-led counterpart. It also represents a much-needed, gigantic step forward, not just for the AFL, but for sport in this country as a whole.
With it, comes a new generation of diverse role models, like GWS Giants captain Emma Swanson, one of several openly same-sex attracted players in the league.
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Its a damn exciting time to be a footy fan
The Collingwood women's team came to my son's school yesterday for a footy clinic and hand out footy cards. Telling me about it at night he was so rapt the players came and made no differentiation between them because they were women. The cards went straight into the footy album with all the men's cards.
If they AFL continues the support this will soon be the dominant women's sport in Australia, I have no doubt about that.
No doubt here either