Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tailor: Women’s pathway not diverse Sanderson: There is an issue

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Trailblazing football coach Manisha Tailor MBE has told Sky Sports News the elite women’s pathway in English football lacks diversity.

PFA figures released earlier this year revealed just 9.7 per cent of footballers at the elite level of the game are from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

The number of British South Asian professionals in the top division of women’s football stands at a paltry 0.3 per cent. That is despite South Asian women making up the largest single ethnic minority female group in the country, and the worldwide success of 2002-hit film ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ based on an aspiring British footballer from a South Asian background.

Speaking to Sky Sports News ahead of this summer Women’s Euros, FA director of women’s football Baroness Sue Campbell admitted the current system of talent identification and recruitment in the girls’ and women’s game excludes a lot of people.

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FA director of women’s football Baroness Sue Campbell thinks meaningful change for diverse communities at the elite end of the women’s game could take years, admitting the current system of Talent ID and recruitment excludes a lot of people

Tailor, who is assistant head of academy coaching at QPR and the only South Asian heritage woman ever to hold such a role in the game, has called for action to be taken to redress one of the biggest statistical anomalies in English football.