Women's World Cup: England success leaves WSL legacy

England women became the country's most successful football team in half a century, captured the imagination of a nation on the way to World Cup bronze and attracted unprecedented attention along the way. Coach Mark Sampson labelled his team "legends", while the Football Association welcomed them back as "poster girls" for the game - but what legacy was cast in Canada? In south-west London, AFC Wimbledon Ladies have added three more girls teams, at Wembley they are encouraging more dads to back their daughters on the football pitch and across the country clubs are anticipating bigger crowds. So as the players shift their attention back to club duties in the Women's Super League, where you can buy a ticket to watch Liverpool Ladies for the same amount of money that you would spend on a cup of tea at Anfield, BBC Sport looks at how the World Cup will impact on women's football in England. Dads, daughters and dugouts The latest numbers show that fathers would sooner put a tennis racquet in their daughter's hand and will them to play at Wimbledon than have them lace up a pair of football boots and dream of Wembley. England and Notts County defender Sophie Bradley, who was taken out of World Cup contention with a knee injury, faced that very battle as a young girl trying to convince her father Russell that it was not just a "boy's world". While the Lionesses were on the way to winning World Cup bronze in Canada, the FA was busy trying capitalise on the record exposure by launching a We Can Play campaign. The aim is to entice more players to try the game, to change preconceptions and recruit an army of dads as supporters in an effort to make women's football the second most popular team sport in Britain behind men's football by 2018.
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