World Cup Discussion Thread

[Occhidiangela]

I meant more than by boys. But I'm relying on the probably unrepresentative sample of my relatives and what I see on TV, so am happy to be corrected.

You need to be corrected. The only reason the growth in girls is becoming visible is

1. More girls are being born, boys are being slowly outnumbered
2. More people are standing up girls's teams.
3. In time, I expect you may find more girls than boys playing soccer, but at what societal value added I can't imagine.

When I was a teenager, not every high school had a soccer team, and few to none had women's soccer teams. That has changed, in the cases of both genders.

Occhi