Former South African Football Association director of women's football Fran Hilton-Smith says the best way to fast-track professionalisation of and better development in women's soccer is through the Premier Soccer League and its clubs.
Former Banyana Banyana coach Fran Hilton-Smith during the Cosafa U17 Girls draw at Cosafa House, Johannesburg on August 28 2019.Former South African Football Association director of women's football Fran Hilton-Smith says the best way to fast-track professionalisation of and better development in women's soccer is through the Premier Soccer League and its clubs.
The challenges of attracting enough sponsorship, probably amounting to hundreds of millions of rand, to make a women's league fully professional seems a bridge too far for the sport. “I think if we had proper development structures, school football and sponsors we could win the World Cup, that I have no doubt about.
“I think having events like these will empower women in sport and enable them [sports federations] to empower their athletes because we have seen in the past few weeks how successful our athletes can be in many fields such as football, netball and others.
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