Women's football: Life after retirement

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Remember Brandi Chastain? She scored the winning goal in the 1999 Women's World Cup final. She celebrated the goal by whipping off her shirt and swinging it round her head. The image of Brandi in a sports bra was on the cover of newspapers around the world.

Now she’s joined forces with former team mates Leslie Osborne, Aly Wagner and Danielle Slaton to create a team, Bay FC, which will play in the US National Women’s Soccer League in 2024. They’re part of a growing trend in women’s football of players who are willing to invest money earned while playing the game back to help the next generation of players.

We also hear from former England player Karen Carney who is helping retired footballers find a career in business.

Presenter / producer: Sam Fenwick

(Image: Brandi Chastain, Aly Wagner, Leslie Osborne and Danielle Slaton launch Bay Area Football Club. Credit: Bay FC)

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0:00.0	Where can you hear all the latest from the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand?
0:05.3	Some big players, they're electric going forward.
0:07.9	World Football at the Women's World Cup from the BBC World Service.
0:12.8	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:25.6	Hello, this is Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
0:26.6	I'm Sam Fennick.
0:30.9	As part of our series looking into women, football and business,
0:36.3	today we're finding out what female footballers do when're playing career is over.
0:43.6	We care. We're so passionate. This has been our livelihood. We want to make it better than where we left it. You'll hear from footballing legends investing vast sums of money into the
0:50.0	future of the women's game. They want to guarantee it survives and thrives for the next generation
0:55.7	of World Cup winners. We need to be supporting these female footballers in finding opportunities
1:02.3	after sport. We reveal how former players are devoting their time to help retired athletes have a
1:09.3	career after football. If it said to me as a player, you're going to be in the office, you're going athletes have a career after football.
1:13.9	If it has said to me as a player, you're going to be in the office.
1:14.7	You're going to have a laptop.
1:15.4	I would have a left.
1:19.7	From captains on the pitch to leaders in the boardroom.
1:22.8	Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
1:28.1	If the squad ain't with me, then it ain't right.
1:38.7	Welcome to the latest team to join the United States National Women's Soccer League.
1:49.4	The team from the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay FC, will make their debut in the league in the 2024 season.
1:57.5	They arrive in the NWSL alongside Utah Royals FC and will create a league of 14 teams.
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