Melissa Etheridge, Megan Rapinoe, Darian Jenkins and more on NWSL Championship

[@daisypooch4034]

Such a Great tribute to women and women's sports!! So long overdue, much respect to the ladies, the stadium and CBS for broadcasting all week from there highlighting the upcoming women's soccer championship.❤❤ Go Orlando Pride!! But may it be a spectacular event no matter who wins!🎉🎉

[@pamwittman4832]

Love love love this CBS coverage. Watched the entire program!!!!! It’s good to be from Kansas and supporting women’s sports this year and next! Can’t wait to see the game in person tonight, my first time to be in the stadium

[@justafan323]

Love this story 👏🏽

[@onechess]

I am a 4 year season Current season ticket holder (and have mine for next year). I am SO very proud of my Current having the first purpose built stadium for women's sport in the world!!

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Fabulous 💜💕💜

[@otaviosilva8862]

KC Baby!!!

[@csmd85]

Wow. This coverage is huge.

[@david_209_13]

LET'S GO TRINITY RODMAN AND THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT !!! 🙌🔥⚽🏆

[@SarunasMalakauskas-mk6yk]

Morning to CNBC and Big Thanks for present To take in CNN!!! Shaun

[@alittleceltic]

What about the teams?

[@fernandoferrer4292]

Excelente estadio!

[@bkirstie]

love is in the details

[@dianedugan699]

Right On...

[@TF-vb9us]

Dope I love women 🤓

[@david_209_13]

Where's Alex Morgan ? 🤷

[@alansmithee8831]

Here in England they copied Spain's academy system for football. Check out how many finals have been between Spain and England and how England are now regularly making semi finals at youth level and how many trophies Spain win or come second. US has noticed and has not only brought in Emma Hayes, but stopped the idea that players come via college as the expected way to go professional. I keep suggesting in comments that US owners invest in Spanish clubs in return for training for junior players and coaches.

[@Delboy0]

England messed up their academy system in the switch from semi-professional to fully professional, because hey shut down the academies for girls in the big diverse cities and put them in non-diverse affluent areas and turned women’s football in England in a white rich girl sport, because they excluded the working class girls in urban areas. Thankful the English FA realised their mistake and slowly correcting this and scouting in the big urban diverse cities again. 😊

[@alansmithee8831]

@Delboy0 I am from one of those inner cities. The intention was I am told to keep the kids in safer areas and the more affluent parents could support their kids better. It actually worked for those kids, but made it worse for the poorer ones. You could argue that it produced the winning team at the Euros and brought more money into the sport, but let down a generation from areas like where I came from s the price of winning.

[@Delboy0]

@@alansmithee8831 it was nothing to do with keeping kids safe, because the boys academies are all still in the big urban areas. It was to do purely with costs because land is cheaper outside of the major cities, but that is where most of the talent is. England was always going to be successful given they were the 2nd biggest funder of women’s football and had a head start they had on other nations, but they could have been even stronger with black girls who have higher skill levels and athleticism, like the men’s team benefit from and other working class girls. Emma Hayes said her biggest fear for English women’s football is the sport had become to upper middle class, and they were missing out on so much talent due to the new structures the FA had set up in the professional era. It was kinda embarrassing how white lionesses were compared to the men’s team because it showed there had been policies that excluded girls of colour in youth development in England. You can see for the past year the Lionesses’ results have got worse as other countries fund their programs more and not include the working class.

[@alansmithee8831]

@Delboy0 The results of the England junior teams are finals and semis this last year, so how is it worse. The team won the Euros, but then the FA needed the players the TV watching public recognised to play to promote the game. Younger players have struggled to break through. Ian Wright has spoken well on this. The main thing is it has been corrected going forward, but it did leave out a generation of inner city kids. I commented before that Emma Hayes would try to make sure US included poorer kids too and this would be a good thing there. I was judging from listening to my favourite US player Midge Purce who has a great dad who helped her, but said that not all kids could afford the travel costs and parents the time.

[@robwarren4425]

The NWSL is so much better in every respect then the wnba

[@kryptoniteKJ]

In what way and by how much? Honestly curious because I love them both

[@debbie5728]

If NWSL played in the forest would anyone....

[@PuraJay]

LOL. What a waste of money.

[@7beachbum]

It's not your money.

[@Thesun_135]

@@7beachbumlmao he doesn’t have any money.