Head of Football Australia urges for more ACL injury study ahead of the Women's World Cup
The co-host nation of the World Cup, Australia, has a head of women's football who has advocated for greater study on anterior cruciate ligament injuries.
Leah Williamson and Beth Mead of England will miss this month's competition due to a major knee injury, according to Football Australia's Sarah Walsh, who also called it a "shame" that players.
She holds "hundreds of years of underinvestment" in research responsible.
Women have been treated like small guys for a very long time, she claimed.
"Research is seriously lacking. The whole high-performance ecosystem was created by men for men and is centred around males.
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Williamson and Mead's teammate at Arsenal, Dutch striker Vivianne Miedema, who sustained an ACL injury in December, will also be absent from the Women's Women Cup, which will be held in Australia and New Zealand from 20 July to 20 August.
Throughout her own playing career, which featured 70 appearances for Australia, Walsh, 40, had severe knee problems.
On BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she commented, "I would have loved to have known if my menstrual cycle had contributed to any one of my knee reconstructions."
We haven't even begun, and it has taken a century of underfunding women's football to get us to this position, where we have lost a number of players for this World Cup, which is tragic.
According to research, female football players are more likely than male players to get an ACL injury, with estimations ranging from two to eight times higher.
There are several ideas as to why this is the case, ranging from the physical distinctions between men and women to the part hormones and the female menstrual cycle play.
It has been proposed that special equipment should be created for women to lessen the chance of ACL injuries, but Walsh thinks the scientific community should be responsible for coming up with a solution.
She asserted that research, rather than [the kit] makers, was the real problem.
Women's football is pioneering new territory.
Walsh has been encouraged by the advancements being made on the pitch despite the fact that women's football continues to trail behind men's football in terms of money and research.
She thinks that Fifa was assisted by a boom in popularity throughout the world while negotiating the broadcast rights for the 2023 Women's World Cup.
Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, has threatened a blackout of European TV if rights deals were not upgraded.
Women's football is at a pretty exciting place right now, according to Walsh. It is beginning to question the current quo and pave new ground.
"If there had been broadcast rights, you would have seen it. Because if we continue to undersell these rights, the ecosystem won't adjust to accommodate it, Fifa, as the rights holder, stood their position in many of the major European markets to actually get the proper value.
"I find it to be really intriguing. There are other companies that I believe will profit from this transition as female athletes break new ground in women's sport right now.
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