Some Juicy Facts About 2011 Women's Soccer World Cup Part 1
The sixth FIFA Women's World Cup in soccer takes place in Germany from 26 June 2011 to 17 July 2011 . Nine German cities host this most important international tournament in women's football. In Germany the competition is known as Frauenfußball Weltmeisterschaft, or Fußball Weltmeisterschaft der Frauen. Are you like me? I am only interested in soccer when the big international tournaments are on, the world cup and the Olympics, that's it. I have my favourite teams in the Fußball Bundesliga, but I don't watch any football matches on TV. I check the charts occasionally, and that is all. Fußball, as we call soccer, is cult in the men's world in Germany . When women began to play soccer they were laughed at by men, of course. Women wearing a football dress (short trousers) was considered as unacceptable. The DFB (German Football Association) forbade official matches for women in 1955. This ban lasted until 1970. Nevertheless, about 70 inofficial international ma...