How women footballers can overcome negative stereotypes

English footballers wrote history this week. For the first time ever, they won at the knock-out stage and reached the quarter finals. Hang on, you might say, this is cannot be true? England won the world cup in 1966 and reached the quarter final several times before? The success was in fact achieved by the women’s football squad, who are competing at the Women’s World Cup in Canada this month and remain hopeful of reaching the semi-finals.