kickOFF (news round-up)
News p.4
She Kicks opens its first issue with kickOFF, a two-page news round-up of the stories shaping the game at the end of 2009. The lead item is Lucy Bronze becoming the first British player…
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December 2009 18 articles indexed
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England Internationals: England 8-0 Malta; Turkey 0-3 England (WWC 2011 qualifiers)
Match report p.6
Two FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 Group 5 qualifiers reported on one England page, both with full line-ups, scorers and referees. At Bloomfield Road, Blackpool on Sunday 25 October 2009, England beat Malta 8-0…
Powell Pushing Players to Perform
Run-of-page feature p.7
Tony Leighton's feature frames 2010 as the year Hope Powell must turn silver into gold, after England's most successful season: a Cyprus Cup win, a European Championship final lost 6-2 to world champions Germany,…
Carney Raring to Go
Interview p.7
Karen Carney talks to Tony Leighton after two and a half months out of the game. Her 62nd-minute appearance against Turkey in November was her first football since England's European Championship final defeat by…
A look at Eni’s life
Cover feature p.8
She Kicks' first cover interview is Tony Leighton's four-page Q&A with 22-year-old England striker Eniola Aluko, closing a year in which she starred for St Louis Athletica in America's new Women's Professional Soccer league…
Lee Long Serving
Interview p.12
Glasgow City's Leeanne Campbell submits to She Kicks' questions after passing 200 appearances for the club in the final game of the season, against Boroughmuir. Eight years in, she counts four league titles, three…
Anna Signeul’s Scots Intent
Interview p.15
Scotland head coach Anna Signeul talks to news editor Wilf Frith about a side she believes is progressing steadily, having been unlucky to lose a Euro play-off to Russia and taken good results against…
Fozzy’s Fifty and More
Interview p.16
Emma Pursey interviews Cheryl Foster, the PE teacher who is Wales's most capped player and Liverpool's longest-serving member. Foster broke Kath Morgan's caps record without realising, focused instead on getting the points in Azerbaijan,…
Wales: Girls’ Football Performance Centres – Next Steps to Welsh Success
News p.17
A development news sidebar on the Welsh Football Trust's investment in girls' football performance centres, the next rung on the ladder into Wales's elite structures. Until now the first step for girls has been…
New League Leads the Way
Run-of-page feature p.18
The Welsh Premier Women's League kicked off its inaugural season under floodlights at Park Avenue on Thursday 24 September, Aberystwyth Town facing Llanidloes Town in front of hundreds of fans. Funded by the FAW…
Lincoln Ladies’ Global Links
Interview p.19
Mark Hodsman meets the two overseas players recruited by FA Women's Premier League Northern Division club Lincoln Ladies. American Randi Johns heard about the club from goalkeeper Kay Hawke, who had played for Ventura…
Katie Chapman (farewell poster)
Poster p.20
A double-page farewell poster marking Katie Chapman's departure from Arsenal for America's Women's Professional Soccer league. The spread is image only, carrying just her name as a caption. The issue's contents page bills her…
Bronze Boldly Goes…
Interview p.22
An interview with Lucy Bronze in her freshman year at the University of North Carolina, where she has just become the first British player to win the NCAA College Cup, UNC beating Stanford 1-0…
Champions League Check Up
Tournament feature p.24
A three-page Champions League Q&A with Everton's Becky Easton and Jody Handley and Arsenal's Ciara Grant, reviewing the rebranded competition's first season. Easton and Handley welcome the switch from week-long qualifying tournaments to two-legged…
Born Kicking: Keeping (the Elliott sisters)
Run-of-page feature p.30
The debut of Born Kicking, She Kicks' feature to find future stars, hits a hat-trick with three goalkeeping sisters from Blackburn Rovers' Centre of Excellence: Jasmine, 15, known as Jazz, Jade, 11, known as…
Ashleigh Kicks! (Street Kicks)
Interview p.31
An interview with Ashleigh Goddard, 17, the Arsenal Academy student who won the second series of Wayne Rooney's Sky One skills show Street Striker, beating 17 boys and six other girls to the Coke…
WeKick! with Saltash United
Run-of-page feature p.33
A WeKick! grassroots club profile of Saltash United, the Cornish side who reformed in 2005-06 and have had a winning season every year since. The page charts the rise: third in Cornwall Women's Division…
Festive Fitness Guide
Run-of-page feature p.34
FA exercise scientist Dawn Scott's four-page festive fitness guide, aimed at players facing a Christmas of parties, feasting and no club training. Tables set out the calorie content of drinks and bar snacks against…