Issue
March 2019 36 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill writes as She Kicks prepares to travel to the United States to follow England at the 2019 SheBelieves Cup, with a strong squad whose selection has caused debate at home, and similar…
News pp.4–5
Football Federation Australia terminates Matildas head coach Alen Stajcic five months before the World Cup, after a wellbeing audit and a gender equality culture survey, and appoints Socceroos assistant Ante Milicic in his place.…
News p.6
The fortnight's league round-up across the English pyramid. Manchester City remain unbeaten and top of the FA WSL with four games to play, Arsenal two points behind with games in hand and Chelsea four…
Interview p.7
A Q&A with Jawahir Roble, a BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Management student at UCFB Wembley, published as the 2019 World Cup approached and the FA's Gameplan for Growth aimed to double female participation…
Tournament feature p.8
A round-by-round account of the 2018-19 SSE Women's FA Cup as it reaches the quarter-finals. Crawley Wasps, AFC Wimbledon and Keynsham Town all eliminate higher-ranked sides in the third round, where Helen Ward takes…
Interview pp.10–13
Projected as a first-round pick after a record-setting four years at Pepperdine, Brianna Visalli went nineteenth overall in the 2018 NWSL draft, then found herself a Chicago Red Stars reserve working three jobs behind…
Column / Opinion p.14
Birmingham City captain Kerys Harrop, who made her 175th appearance for the club at the end of January, writes on a turbulent couple of months at Blues. Manager Marc Skinner has left for the…
Poster p.15
A full-page poster of Chelsea and Korea Republic playmaker Ji So-Yun, shown celebrating in the 2018-19 Chelsea home shirt with the club crest and the FA Women's Super League mark set against the caption…
Other pp.16–17
A two-page photographic gallery covering the FA Women's Super League and the FA Women's Championship between 10 December 2018 and 20 February 2019, running from the title race through goalmouth scrambles, celebrations and saves.…
Interview pp.18–19
Liverpool attacking midfielder Laura Coombs opens a new She Kicks slot in which ten random questions are fired at a Super League player. Coombs, who started 2019 in strong form after arriving permanently from…
Column / Opinion p.20
Hibernian captain and Scotland internationalist Joelle Murray reports on a busy start to 2019 after an injury-hit 2018. Her domestic season ended in November with a Scottish Cup final win over SWPL 2 side…
Column / Opinion p.21
Wales record goalscorer Helen Ward writes on Watford's Women's FA Cup run and on the state of her own form. The year opened with a 7-2 third-round win at Middlesbrough that started a goalscoring…
Interview pp.22–25
Jess Sigsworth topped the FA WSL 2 scoring charts and won the title with Doncaster Rovers Belles after returning from a 2016 anterior cruciate ligament injury, and is now Manchester United's number nine. She…
Other pp.26–27
The SK Awards return, and She Kicks heads to Bristol City to hand out the gongs, with unconfirmed reports that the secret agents responsible gathered at a residence known to Carla Humphrey, Sophie Baggaley…
Other p.28
Four all-time top-ten tables covering the FA Women's Super League from its first season in 2011 to early 2019. Jo Potter leads for games played on 117, from Kerys Harrop on 115, Jill Scott…
Other p.29
Opta figures set Nikita Parris's 2018-19 season against her whole FA Women's Super League career, after a breakout 2018 in which she led England's scoring in World Cup qualifying, became the league's all-time top…
Poster pp.30–31
A landscape double-page poster of Nikita Parris in the Manchester City home shirt, caught mid-air with the ball at her feet, marking her becoming the FA Women's Super League's all-time leading scorer and reaching…
Run-of-page feature pp.32–33
Glasgow City were champions for a record twelfth consecutive year in 2018, Hibernian won both cups for a third season running and Motherwell took the SWPL 2 title with an unprecedented points haul, and…
Interview p.34
Dundee United's women's team was launched in 2016 by then club director Justine Mitchell, won the SWFL 2 East title and the SWFL2 Cup in their debut season, and took the Division 1 title…
Other p.34
A single-question box inside the 2019 Scottish Building Society SWPL season launch, running under the standing heading 'SWPL Best Superstition' beside the Quick Kicks Q&A with Dundee United's Kirsty Oliphant. Stirling University centre midfielder…
Run-of-page feature p.35
The talking points of the 2019 Scottish season, and the new SWPL entry criteria set out in full: minimum qualifications for managers and goalkeeping coaches, a physiotherapist at every game and player access to…
Interview p.35
Taken in house by Motherwell FC in 2018, the women of steel won the SWPL 2 title with five games to spare under Eddie Wolecki Black and finished as SSE Scottish Cup runners-up under…
Interview p.36
Bosnia and Herzegovina international Lidija Kulis joined Glasgow City from Turbine Potsdam in July 2018 and featured in their Champions League run and SWPL 1 title win. The versatile 26-year-old, who played seven of…
Other p.36
A 'Watch out for' box inside the 2019 SWPL season launch, tipping Spartans and Scotland Under-17 defender Robyn McCafferty as one to follow, and running beside the Quick Kicks Q&A with Glasgow City's Lidija…
Interview pp.37–39
Germany's newly named captain talks to Jasmina Schweimler as the World Cup approaches, having missed EURO 2017 with a knee injury and watched from home as two decades of German dominance ended. Alexandra Popp…
Interview pp.40–41
Conducted entirely as a Twitter exchange, the #SheTweets Q&A catches FC Rosengard forward Fiona Brown a few games into her third season in Sweden and in contention for Shelley Kerr's World Cup squad. She…
Interview pp.42–43
The Safe Hands slot turns to Arsenal's French goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, who started keeping at fourteen only because her coach asked whether anyone wanted to fill the other goal at training. She rates her…
Interview pp.44–45
In October 2018 Alison Nicholl became the first woman from Northern Ireland to gain the UEFA Pro Licence, twelve years after a trip to help with kit turned a hobby into a career. She…
Interview p.46
The Official Kicks slot profiles Emma Guest, a Level 5 referee from Romford in Essex who has been officiating for eight seasons and mainly takes men's premier games. She started out as a bet…
Interview pp.47–49
The She Kicks a Beat slot finds Lyon's Dutch forward Shanice van de Sanden at the centre of a story about music and identity. Her stooping header in front of a capacity Utrecht crowd…
Interview pp.50–51
Republic of Ireland midfielder Megan Connolly ended her collegiate career a National Champion with Florida State University before joining Brighton and Hove Albion, and she talks the Locker Room through her matchday routine. Preparation…
Interview pp.51–52
Everton's January signing from Hibernian, the 25-year-old full-back Emma Brownlie, takes the Kit Check. A former Scotland Under-19 international, she jumped at the chance to join a big club and link back up with…
Other pp.52–54
A bumper Born Kicking set introduces four young readers. Reese Hopkinson, 11, plays for Leeds United RTC, supports both Leeds and Manchester United Women, wants to meet Messi and names Jess Sigsworth among her…
Poster p.55
A poster page and fact file for Canada's Christine Sinclair, then of the Portland Thorns, carrying 275 caps and 178 international goals, WPS championships in 2010 and 2011, NWSL championships in 2013 and 2017,…
Interview pp.56–57
Twelve-year-old Freya Vine from Horncastle sets six questions to her favourite player, and Jodie Taylor answers them. Taylor started at about seven in the back garden taking shots at her dad, one of four…
Other p.58
The puzzle page closes the issue with two games. Spot the Difference sets two versions of a Bristol City against Brighton goalmouth scramble side by side and asks readers to find nine changes, the…
