FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Winner Fiamma Benitez Shares Her Football With Asia’s Junpiter Futbol

“Women’s football is taking a very big step lately and you can see the stadium is getting packed at our league match. Last time, it used to be men’s idols for the young players, nowadays they can have women’s footballers as their idols. I am feeling excited and I am confident the entire women’s football scene will get better and better as we move forward. The future of women’s football is very promising”

The Regal F.C. Half-time Conversation #3, Angeline Chua, the Trailblazer

“I think having the right kind of mindset where one’s football knowledge is consistently kept up to scratch is important, as is the availability of proper facilities,” says Angeline. “Seychelles and Singapore either lack one or the other. In Seychelles, the footballers have a decent understanding of football, but what holds Seychellois players back is the lack of decent pitches and their access to them. On the other hand, we have plenty of facilities and pitches in Singapore, but we lack the fire that will push our players upwards in the development of football—it’s a mindset shift that we need to flip”

Singaporean Women’s Footballer Signs Scholarship With Iowa’s Graceland University

“I hope to see the scouting net cast wider as I know a lot of talented players that fall under the radar as the path is not immediately clear how they can get noticed; they drop out from the sport from this lack of support and structure”

Trials are not very widely publicised and the increase in talent numbers can only be a positive effect for the game as a whole here”

UAE Women’s football legend Houriya Taheri becomes the first female to coach Men’s Beach Soccer Team in Asia

“After my international playing days, I have picked up foot volley during one of my vacations at the beach and I have been playing the sport ever since. However, I realised that there’re actually many female footballers who also love and play the game very well. Unfortunately, there is no proper platform or an UAE Women’s Beach Soccer Team in the country. So that’s when I thought perhaps I could get more involved in the country’s beach soccer scene and that could motivate more women footballers to come forward to get involved”