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Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.

— Marta

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.

— Marta

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

— Hope Solo

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

— Marta

At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.

— Jessica Fox

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

— Dennis Bergkamp

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

— Landon Donovan

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

— Kevin Durant

Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

— Taufik Hidayat

✗Opposing Perspectives

I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

— Abby Wambach

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

— Parminder Nagra