EINDHOVEN, Netherlands : Saturday's sold out Women's Champions League Final between Barcelona and VfL Wolfsburg is an ideal showcase for the global growth of women's soccer, National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Commissioner Jessica Berman said on Thursday.Barcelona hope to collect their second title in t
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands : Saturday's sold out Women's Champions League Final between Barcelona and VfL Wolfsburg is an ideal showcase for the global growth of women's soccer, National Women's Soccer League Commissioner Jessica Berman said on Thursday.
More than 34,100 tickets have been sold for the showdown in Eindhoven, Netherlands, European soccer's governing body UEFA said, in the first sold-out final since 2010. "What has been built here in Europe around inter-league club competitions has really shown the rest of the world that there could be global interest in women's club football."
"It took us some years to get where we are right now, where finally, I would say for all of our clubs, we have appropriate training environments for our players and for our games as well, where our players are playing every single game in front of fans that can hold more than 10,000 capacity."
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