FA Apologizes to Pioneering Women's Soccer Team
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The Football Association issued a long-overdue apology to the Corinthians Ladies Football Club, the pioneers of modern womens soccer in Britain. Banned from official grounds in 1921, they played on rough pitches and became global champions. Formed in 1949, the club dodged rules with charity matches, winning an unofficial European Cup and touring South America. Players like Myra Lypnyckyj, Marlene Cook, and Jean Wilson shared stories of grit and prejudice. Documentary director Helen Tither called the apology a fix for a national wrong. Jean Wilson finally received her England cap in 2022, seventy years after playing. The documentary The Corinthians: We Were the Champions is expanding to more cinemas, with showings in Stockport and Bolton starting April 17th, including Q and A sessions.
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