A solid defence and clinical efficiency in front of goal allowed Germany to triumph 2-0 over a desperate Brazil to become the first back-to-back winners of the women’s World Cup…

As the England boys prepared to face Russia, there was only one topic of conversation going round the dinner table: how the women had fared against Japan the previous day. It was…

When Germany’s women played their first international soccer game 25 years ago, school kids were bussed in to fill the stands and the public was at best bemused by the sight.…