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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.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

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.

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.