Some interesting facts about women's soccer: 1) There are almost more registered female soccer players in America than in the rest of the world combined. 2) America started the world's first womens professional soccer league in 2000. It folded after 3 years. Japan's women play in an amateur league, while the US women play in a pro league. 3) The Women's World Cup only started in 1991, after the US lead a coalition in FIFA to create it. This year it wasn't even on real grass. Its still not even broadcast in the overwhelming majority of countries. 4) Canada got to host the women's World Cup because no other country wanted it. 5) For the last Women's World Cup, 93% of the total global TV viewership was from the USA. 6) Over 22.8 million Americans watched game last night. This is comparable to the World Series Finals (men's baseball) and NBA Finals (men's basketball). Nowhere else on the planet does women's soccer get even a quarter of this audience. 7) The current US women's team coach is from England, yet she never played soccer in England as there were no leagues. She came to the US and only started playing soccer there. 8) Women's soccer was banned in England until 1971. The Football Assocation claimed that "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females". 9) The US women's player Alex Morgan earns over $3 million per year, and gets nationwide advertising campaigns and is a household name. Other players like Hope Solo, Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm are also household names. 10) England's highest paid women's soccer player earns £65,000 per year and had a part time job. For comparison sakes, England soccer star Wayne Rooney earns £300,000 (about $470,000) EVERY SINGLE WEEK America basically is women's soccer. In Europe where the men's pro soccer generates €19.4 billion in revenue per year, even the biggest sports fans who could name hundreds of male soccer players wouldn't be able to name even one female player. TL;DR: Norway's women national team on how women's soccer is seen