“Football Under Cover”: Documentary about women’s football (soccer) in Iran
November 18, 2008 by mhueter
Filed under Feminism, Soccer, Sports Programs, Sportsmanship, inspiration
A new documentary (released this year) discusses the reality of women’s soccer players in Iran.
The plot: An amateur female soccer team from Berlin goes on a nerve-wracking journey trying to carry out the first female soccer match in the history of Iran. And it happens in front of over 1,000 cheering female fans.
According to Cinema Without Borders, Football Under Cover won two prizes in Berlin film festival, The TEDDY for the Best Documentary Film and VOLKSWAGEN Audience Award.
This documentary has been capturing attention across continents. For example, check out this NPR article. Also, popular soccer blog, The Global Game has even featured information about this movie.
Can anyone figure out where we can see it? I’d love to view this.
Check out the trailer below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyMc0bW_b8M
WNBA Sees Second Slam Dunk
July 17, 2008 by mhueter
Filed under Basketball, Famous Women in Sports, Sports Headlines, Uncategorized
I know I’m a little late reporting, but I find this to be a marked place in the history of women’s basketball. On June 22, 2008, Candace Parker slammed the second women’s dunk in the WNBA. She’s been dunking since high school, but this marked only the second time someone has done it professionally, and it hit generated national attention and claimed some space on YouTube, as seen below.
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Parker was also the first women’s basketball player to dunk in an NCAA women’s basketball game (she did so in 2006, when she dunked twice against Army). Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks was the first to throw down a dunk against the Miami Sol on July 30, 2002. That has since been voted WNBA’s greatest milestone.
Check out this great interview between NPR and Nancy Lieberman-Klein from back in 2006. Here, they discuss why dunking is so rare in women’s basketball, and why Candace Parker is changing history.
I agree with Lieberman-Klein. Candace is making milestones, and she’s starting trends that girls across America will follow. That is the beauty of women’s sports.
