I think we have to keep putting women's sports in the limelight. I thought the Women's World Cup did a wonderful job of showing the quality of women's soccer. But we also need coverage and marketing and press and getting these female athletes to become household names.
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. "
I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.
The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.
Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
