The supremacy of us women's football: qualitative sporting success indicators

Abstract

Introduction: Women's soccer has had difficulties in establishing itself in the sports field due to socio-historical barriers and conditions. The United States Women's Football Team has stood out due to its international achievements in the most important events overcoming barriers and paradigms. Objective: The purpose of this work is to identify and examine qualitative indicators of sports success that corroborate to the supremacy of the American team in women's soccer. Materials and Methods: This is a qualitative study that used primary and secondary sources such as official documents and sport organization’s reports. Information used included those upon sport formation, bureaucratization and professionalization of women’s football, as well as football management in the USA. Results: It was mapped that interconnected conjunctural aspects at macro and meso levels corroborate to the success of Women’s football in the USA, such as bureaucratic and structured management of its National League as a result of persistent attempts; specific sports training work with grassroots teams in various categories; Non-Governmental Organization’s work for the social and sports training of young athletes, including mixed sports practice. Conclusion: From the results, it was concluded that the success of American women's football is related to strategic actions in macro and meso levels, continually revised, which make the United States overcome social paradigms and barriers, achieving supremacy in women's football worldwide.