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Mummelmann said: Well, it's fair to assume that nations with good male teams and good football culture will also have good female players in the same sport, wouldn't you agree? In the case of my home country; the females are actually a whole lot better. :-p |
Actually no. Women's football has been dominated over the past 25 years by the following countries:
USA (2x WC, 7x Gold Cup), Germany (2x WC, 8x Euro) plus Norway (1x WC, 2x Euro), Japan (1x WC, 1x Asia) and Brazil, Canada, Sweden, China, North Korea (all of those countries won at least one continental championship), i.e. so far only GER and BRA can be considered successful nations in both, men's and women's football.
The important men's football nations Italy, Spain, Argentina, France, Netherlands (and the less important, but prominent nations Portugal and England) didn't play any role up to now. France is catching up though, their national team is even among the favorites this World Cup. Can't say the same about the others.
Successful in women's football are the countries which supported it first and best. In Europe only NOR, SWE and GER took women's football seriously already in the 90s and were for a long time - until Japan caught up and Brazil to an extend as well - the only 3 countries worldwide to be able to compete with the leading nation in women's football, USA.
