Former Wales striker Helen Ward praises the national women's team's historic qualification for Euro 2025, comparing it to the men's team's impact in 2016. Ward believes this achievement will significantly boost women's football in the country.
Wales great Helen Ward says the women's team qualifying for a first major tournament will leave a lasting legacy that will see the game attain new levels in the nation.
"The journey that this squad and this country has been on in terms of women's football, for it to finally happen, it's everything," Ward told"It does so much, it's probably quite hard to quantify it at the moment, and in pre-match and the build-up I talked about the impact the boys had in 2016 on the nation and football as a sport - it overtook rugby, rightly or wrongly, but it seems to have done that.
"It's going to increase participation, it's going to increase attendances, it's going to increase interest, sponsorships and commercial. After a 1-1 draw in the play-off final first leg in Cardiff, Republic of Ireland started the second leg as favourites in front of a crowd of 25,832.
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