Chapter 4: The Face of Football Bodies: ‘Resisting Market Enclosure and Imagining Another (Football) Future’

This is a text from a work called ‘dear market’ written and performed by c.d. fisher (January 2018).

Women’s football around the world is going through a period of significant growth and professionalisation. The career of a professional football player is slowly becoming a viable option for women. Professionalisation of the women’s game is well underway in five of the world’s most developed leagues in Germany, France, England, Sweden and the United States. Other countries are not far behind and new countries are entering the picture, for example, the first ever women’s professional league, Liga Águila Femenina, launched in Colombia last year.