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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

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.

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.

Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

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.

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.