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The Liberia women's national football team is the women's national team representing the country in international competitions. They have played in five FIFA recognised matches. ==Background and development== Early development of the women's game at the time colonial powers brought football to the continent was limited as colonial powers in the region tended to take make concepts of patriarchy and women's participation in sport with them to local cultures that had similar concepts already embedded in them.〔 The lack of later development of the national team on a wider international level symptomatic of all African teams is a result of several factors, including limited access to education, poverty amongst women in the wider society, and fundamental inequality present in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses. When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad. Continent wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association.〔 Future, success for women's football in Africa is dependent on improved facilities and access by women to these facilities. Attempting to commercialise the game and make it commercially viable is not the solution, as demonstrated by the current existence of many youth and women's football camps held throughout the continent. The national federation, Liberia Football Association, was founded in 1936. It became a FIFA affiliate in 1962. Women's football is represented on the committee by specific constitutional mandate.〔 In 2009, the organisation did not have any full-time staff members specifically dedicated to assisting women's football.〔〔 Their kit includes red shirts, white shorts and red socks. Football is the most popular women's participation sport in the country.〔 A women's football programme was first organised by the national federation in the country in 1988. In 2000, there were 264 registered female players in the country. In 2006, there were 277 players. In 2006, there were only two women's only teams available for women to play on while there were 43 teams for men to play on.〔 By 2009, regional and national women's football competitions had been established, but no competition had been organised for UL or schools.〔 Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by the African Union of Broadcasting. Jamesetta Howard has served as the country's Minister of Youth and Sports. The national football association president was Izetta Wesley. The country's president was Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. All were women and all supported the women's national team.〔 In 2007, Izetta Wesley was named a member of the FIFA Women's Football Committee and that of FIFA Women's World Cup, with her term starting in 2008. She has also served as the Match Commissioner of CAF and FIFA, and Vice President of the West African Football Union (WAFU). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liberia women's national football team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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