Japanese Football Club Signed A Woman Footballer Into Their Team

[RAMROD 117,116]

 

Japan Women's World Cup winner Yuki Nagasato is joining men's club Hayabusa Eleven of the Kanagawa Prefecture League in Japan.

She will be the only woman playing on a men's club in Japan and just one of a very few in football history to do so.

The Chicago Red Stars loaned Nagasato, 33, to the Japanese club for the duration of the NWSL fall schedule and offseason. Hayabusa currently plays in the second division of the Kanagawa league, one of around 50 regional prefecture leagues that operate seven and eight rungs below the J-League at the top of the domestic men's professional soccer ladder.

Nagasato is not the first women's player to seek an opportunity with a men's semi-pro or pro team. Earlier this year, the Netherlands FA announced 19-year-old Ellen Fokkema would be allowed to play for VV Foarut in the domestic ladder's ninth tier as part of a pilot program. Women were previously barred from playing for Category A teams beyond the under-19 age group.

Current North Carolina Courage and Canada goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe also attempted to play for a men's team, Calgary Foothills FC, in 2018. She went through training with the team but was ultimately prohibited from continuing by league rules regarding gender.

 

Full article:

https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-nwsl-challenge-cup-and-fall/story/4177247/japan-womens-wc-winner-yuki-nagasato-signs-for-amateur-mens-club

 

This is iconick

When will Bayern Munchen, Manchester United, or Real Madrid?? Hopefully soon.  FIFA need to uodate their old dated gender rules. 

 

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

18 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

 

Japan Women's World Cup winner Yuki Nagasato is joining men's club Hayabusa Eleven of the Kanagawa Prefecture League in Japan.

She will be the only woman playing on a men's club in Japan and just one of a very few in football history to do so.

The Chicago Red Stars loaned Nagasato, 33, to the Japanese club for the duration of the NWSL fall schedule and offseason. Hayabusa currently plays in the second division of the Kanagawa league, one of around 50 regional prefecture leagues that operate seven and eight rungs below the J-League at the top of the domestic men's professional soccer ladder.

Nagasato is not the first women's player to seek an opportunity with a men's semi-pro or pro team. Earlier this year, the Netherlands FA announced 19-year-old Ellen Fokkema would be allowed to play for VV Foarut in the domestic ladder's ninth tier as part of a pilot program. Women were previously barred from playing for Category A teams beyond the under-19 age group.

Current North Carolina Courage and Canada goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe also attempted to play for a men's team, Calgary Foothills FC, in 2018. She went through training with the team but was ultimately prohibited from continuing by league rules regarding gender.

 

Full article:

https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-nwsl-challenge-cup-and-fall/story/4177247/japan-womens-wc-winner-yuki-nagasato-signs-for-amateur-mens-club

 

This is iconick

When will Bayern Munchen, Manchester United, or Real Madrid?? Hopefully soon.  FIFA need to uodate their old dated gender rules. 

 

All those teams probably already have women teams, its just the media always focuses on the men which is wrong 

[Chesescake 4,183]

Sence it happened in Japan. Let's see how long Japanese will remember her or how fast they will try to drag her , hope it forever and she will never been drag. 

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

1 minute ago, OBO said:

Sence it happened in Japan. Let's see how long Japanese will remember her or how fast they will try to drag her , hope it forever and she will never been drag. 

Will she be able to keep up though? There's a reason why sport has been split into male and females from the start... and its not to do with an outdated "system". Males biologically are stonger, fitter, and more powerful than females. 

For sports like Football, where its all about the team effort that counts, I'd say it gonna be pretty difficult for a biological female to keep up. Imagine Messi passing the ball 60 metres to the nearest defender who is a female... like they might not have the control for that power. And likewise, if she was to pass to Messi 60m, the ball could easily be intercepted.  

From a sporting perspective, it doesn't make sense to have a female in a male team against other males. 

[Chesescake 4,183]

2 minutes ago, xoxo Craig said:

Will she be able to keep up though? There's a reason why sport has been split into male and females from the start... and its not to do with an outdated "system". Males biologically are stonger, fitter, and more powerful than females. 

For sports like Football, where its all about the team effort that counts, I'd say it gonna be pretty difficult for a biological female to keep up. Imagine Messi passing the ball 60 metres to the nearest defender who is a female... like they might not have the control for that power. And likewise, if she was to pass to Messi 60m, the ball could easily be intercepted.  

From a sporting perspective, it doesn't make sense to have a female in a male team against other males. 

I'm just curious will Japanese treat her seriously?

[Bt1 5,213]

This is really interesting. I can see it work in some cases. I'm really not interested in football, but I will watch a match with her team.

[LGMonster95 13,704]

Let's see how she'll handle the other guys going full force on her, I watch football and even the smaller guys that aren't that build are struggling. From what I read she's playing in attack. In football deffenders usually are a lot more taller and stronger than the rest of the team, plays a lot more aggressive too etc