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10MA TOPICS! [GUAM FA] Guam's long-term view reaping dividends

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May 17, 2016

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Guam’s impressive breakthrough showing during 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ qualifying has been one of the great stories of world football during the past year. That success was achieved, in part, by the solid foundations put in place by the ambitious Guam Football Association (GFA).

The GFA, with the help of development support from FIFA, have also set their sights on further growing Women’s Football where freshly sown seeds are already sprouting across the small northern Pacific nation, both at grassroots and international level.

Women top the men
The sharp spike in all aspects of women’s football across the globe has also been mirrored in this small nation of some 170,000 inhabitants. The latest benchmark came with a massive leap in female participation numbers for the 2016 season.

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