Cameroon Coach Enow Ngachu said his team's surprising run through group play and into the second round of the World Cup is having a profound impact back home, where opportunities for women in sports remained limited by societal and cultural traditions.
"Africa is not like the European countries. It's very complicated in Africa," Ngachu said Friday before his team's final training session for Saturday's elimination game with China. "At times they don't allow women in football. But with the results we're having, just today I received about 50 messages of young girls interested to play soccer.