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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.

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.

With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

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.

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.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

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.