INTRODUCING - Iconic: The Rise of the Women in Red

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the day Wales name their 23-player squad for this summers Euros, Football Daily brings you the first episode of a brand new series – ‘Iconic: The Rise of the Women in Red’, with Wales' most capped player Jess Fishlock.

After a 50-year ban on women playing football, Wales don’t have an official team until a pivotal meeting with the FAW in the early 1990’s. But even then, the players face playing in handed down, oversized men’s kit and being led by part-time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tuni and Rousseau show on BBC Sounds.
0:04.2	I am here with two of football's most famous friends, Alessia Rousseau, and Ella Toon.
0:07.9	I know where I'll take you for your handy.
0:09.6	Well, Benadourne.
0:10.7	Benadour.
0:11.1	Oh, yeah.
0:13.1	I would like that.
0:14.2	It's Keely Hodgkinson.
0:15.6	Welcome to the books.
0:16.9	How long's like your training sessions?
0:18.3	Like, what do you do?
0:19.0	Just run around.
0:22.2	You think we're best friends for life?
0:23.7	Um, oh my.
0:27.2	Teeny and Rousseau show with me, Vic Hunt.
0:28.9	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.4	You know, I always joke with my wife that it's the longest relationship I for sure ever had. and it's been a turbulent relationship.
0:40.3	The journey to Euro 2025 starts now. Is this their time we're about to find out?
0:48.3	Oh this is a chance. Fishlock! It just has to bring! They are through to the playoffs. They are history makers.
0:59.0	This is essentially a story about a football team trying to qualify for a major tournament.
1:05.0	But in reality, it's about so much more than that.
1:08.0	Women's football was banned. All women's sport was an afterthought.
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