Lioness Legend Fara Williams | "Arsenal should have done more to keep Katie McCabe!"
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I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? Good. Is that a fair enough description? Latter-day pundit?
I'll take that.
Are you enjoying the punditry?
Yeah, no, it's really enjoyable. I mean, I thought I'd go into coaching, but I treat it pretty similar in terms of, yeah, sharing knowledge through the TV screens.
You thought you'd go into coaching. Was there a kind of a sliding doors moment there or what happened?
A couple of things. I did start, I mean, I coached throughout my career alongside playing when the game wasn't professional. When I finished my career, I was coaching with the England under-21s for a couple of years and at Reading as one of the coaches at the women's team. But yeah, just financially, it wasn't feasible without the experience that was needed to kind of get a top coaching job.
Has that changed now in the last 12, 24 months or no?
I think it's changing.
Who is Fara Williams and what is her significance in women's football?
I think it's still difficult. I think there's obviously more opportunities. We're seeing the likes of Remy Allen, Joe Potter. There's a few young female coaches coming through with head coach roles. So, yeah, it's certainly different. There's more investment in that through the FA. But I guess at the time that I was doing it and now I'm so far with my punditry, it's probably six years without coaching, probably too long.
Never say never. Was it in, I'm guessing off the top of my head, but I think it was in Germany, maybe in the third division, there was a female manager, sorry, not in the, it was in... Bundesliga. Bundesliga, yeah. Female manager of a men's team. It's something I'm always curious about as to whether this is something that we're very much sleeping on and that will just become the norm down the track.
I mean, it can become the norm. I do think it starts, you know, lower down. I think that the difficulty is that we don't have enough female coaches, maybe at the academy level for the young lads coming through. And then it's alien for them to go through their whole coaching, I guess, as young players going through their whole coaching with male coaches and then hitting senior level and be like, OK, we're going to put a female there. And they've kind of not had that representation or interactions with female coaches. So maybe if we put more in academy levels, it becomes more normal. And then obviously at the elite end, when it's there, it's not alien to them.
Yeah, definitely something I think down the track might see a lot more of.
We're going to have that new rule come in as well, where there has to be one female coach on coaching teams. So I'm sure that's going to make some difference as well.
Yeah. You're involved with Airbnb and WSL campaign to provide accommodation to players who, obviously, like we've touched on, maybe to some degree without the big salaries of their male counterparts, are often struggling maybe to make ends meet and facing big bills, obviously, when moving clubs. And the movement is to help fill the gaps.
Yeah, absolutely that. I think the Airbnb player accommodation fund, one million over three years, and that's spread between both Barclays WSL1 and Barclays WSL2 teams. And they can basically apply for this funding during the summer transfer window and obviously the winter transfer window. And basically the funding is there for players, as you say, for clubs that are probably a little bit further behind in terms of their growth and development as a club where the funds aren't available through the club.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:40
2
Who is Fara Williams and what is her significance in women's football?
1:40–4:51
3
What led Fara Williams to transition from playing to punditry?
4:51–8:24
4
How has coaching evolved for women in football according to Fara Williams?
8:24–18:42
5
What is the significance of the Airbnb and WSL partnership for players?
18:42–20:55
Speakers
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