How to get inspired with footbal

The beautiful game. The national game. The world game.

Football is a phenomenon. Hundreds of millions of people across the globe live and breathe it, playing it with their friends and watching their heroes.

But don’t be content to just watch it. Lace up your boots and get your foot on the ball to take part in perhaps the most easily accessible sport there is.

Football gives you an all-round workout. Players run, kick, dodge, sprint and jump, and constantly twisting and turning your body increases endurance, promotes agility and develops physical co-ordination.

Football also promotes teamwork on and off the pitch, as many teams socialise together.

The country is in World Cup fever as the competition takes place between June and July 2019. With 1.4 million women and girls playing football, there’s no doubt that it’s the nation’s most popular female-team participation sport.

Around the UK there are schemes designed to help girls get into football – from grassroots to the professional game – as well as routes into coaching.

Each Football Association across the country has information specifically to encourage women to play so get contacting in Scotland