Former captain Laura McAllister says women’s football in Wales could be taken to “stratospheric heights” if the national team can qualify for Euro 2025.
Former captain Laura McAllister says women's football in Wales could be taken to "stratospheric heights" if the national team can qualify for Euro 2025., a new BBC documentary presented by Wales' record goalscorer Jess Fishlock, McAllister said she believes reaching a major tournament for the first time would have a similar impact to the Wales men's team reaching Euro 2016.
"Once that genie is out of the bottle I think women's football in Wales will go to stratospheric heights."The three-part series airing on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Sounds tells the story of the women's international team in Wales, from their unofficial first matches in 1973 through to the modern day when they are on the brink of reaching the finals of a major tournament for the first time.
McAllister, who is now a Uefa vice-president, said: "If you look at the way in which women's football is organised now in Uefa, we're talking the strategy of it being a multi-billion-pound industry by 2030.
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