NORFOLK, Va. - Soccer is largely a man’s sport throughout much of the world. There are limited opportunities for women to excel as players and coaches and college athletics as we know it usually don’t exist.
Gender equity? It’s a foreign concept to many foreign nations.
As a national team coach in her native Scotland, Angie Hind worked 40 hours per week to pay the bills, and coached soccer on the side for free. When she was a player for the Scottish national team, her local club, for whom she worked and played, said she couldn’t go.