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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Tom Garry

Vivianne Miedema: ‘Women’s football is proud to be inclusive but it is starting to slip. We need to act’

Vivianne Miedema tries to find a way through for Manchester City against her former club Arsenal.
Vivianne Miedema tries to find a way through for Manchester City against her former club Arsenal. She says she ‘needed something new’ last summer. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

Vivianne Miedema made her senior debut as a 15-year-old in the Netherlands, and 13 and a half years and more than 300 goals later there are few players better qualified to comment on the evolution of the women’s game than the Manchester City forward. She is deeply concerned by the growing number of incidents of so-called fans abusing players.

“We’re always saying we’re proud in the women’s game that we’re very inclusive but somehow that is starting to slip away a bit,” Miedema says. “If we don’t act really strongly right now then it might be too late.

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