The Forgotten First Ever Women's World Cup

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Known as Copa '71, Mexico hosted the first ever unofficial women's World Cup of Soccer. Why is it still unofficial? Why has almost nobody heard of it even though hundreds of thousands of people attended the televised games? Strider searches for answers and more...

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Sources: Girlssoccernetwork.com ‘The Story Behind Copa ‘71: The Unofficial First Women’s World Cup’ by Rachel Gonzalez 2023, Theguardian.com ‘Copa 71: When 112,500 fans packed out the unofficial Women’s World Cup final’ by Matthew Hall 2023, Theguardian.com ‘A year after more than 50,000 turned up to watch Dick, Kerr Ladies play St Helens, a ban was introduced that was to last half a century’ by Suzanna Wrack 2022, Wikipedia.org, Britannica.com

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0:00.0	Roll it.
0:01.0	Frigin what up, dude.
0:03.0	Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast.
0:05.0	That's mine.
0:06.0	Gonna be called History is Night.
0:08.0	Frigin'
0:10.0	Is Day
0:12.0	with Shrard Wilson.
0:15.0	Take it from the come.
0:20.0	Frigin what up, dude.
0:23.7	Welcome back to another ep of history is dank.
0:27.0	I'm your host Strider Wilson.
0:28.3	Dude, we got Aaron going beast mode on the sticks.
0:31.1	Dude, what's going down, Aaron?
0:32.3	What up?
0:33.0	Dude, I'm freaking chilling right now, dude.
0:35.4	You've been working, been busy.
0:37.1	Honeymoon's over. You know, working hospitality. Dude, been working, been busy, dude, honeymoon's over, you know, working hospitality,
0:41.3	dude, you know, valet, parking whips, scoring fat tips, dude.
0:45.3	You know, look, dude, as soon as October's here, people are in holiday mindset.
0:50.3	You know, the company, you know, charities are having their events, dude, closing the books for the year.
0:55.9	It's busy to have been working, dude.
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