"Kick Like a Girl" airs on HBO

I used to love playing football with the boys at playtime when I was young...my mum wouldn't let me join little league though, so i never got to keep playing.

Glad to see these girls doing well and enjoying the sport so much :)

it's worth watching! yay go girls!!

and LOL at that second pic... that poor boy in the red and white looks like he's trying to protect himself by dancing on his tippy toes while slapping his own forehead =P hehe

those girls look fantastic, i really hope they play this on British tv at some point, will take me back a few years!  

playing soccer gives you such life skills as well confidence, team work, competitive nature (just not to much) and compassion....  

i played from the age of 5 until 18, i'm 19 now but have had to give up because of injury. i loved football so much, i played really seriously though, played for an academy (youth team connected to a professional team, with trials to get in etc) and for my  county squad (like playing for your state), loved it so much, but it just became too political, so even though i got injuryed it was losing the fun anyway. so i hope that never happens to these girls. 

good luck to them! 

Amazing! I didn't even know a show like that was coming out.  I played/play soccer for 19 years. After college I dedicated myself to coaching girls around this age. It is really nice to hear about this series. I'll have to get the dvd when I get back to the states. I remember playing with the boys. We used to school them and they hated it! So fun...

"te doy tres besos más y me enamoro de ti como una perra"

about tutu's and lip gloss was totally me at that age!

In middle school, there wasn't a girls soccer team, so I tried out for the boy's team, and made it! I was the only girl on the team for 3 years straight. I found that the boys on the other teams we played against were particularly aggreessive towards me on the field... because I was a girl.. and apparantly, its embarassing to get schooled on the field by a girl!

Ha ! No worries.. only turned me into a better player and taught me a lot about how the world works.

There were no girls teams when I was little so I played with the boys teams from the age of 8 until 15, when there was finally a girls team at my high school. I don't recall the boys being more agressive but maybe they were, it's a long time ago! I just remember the boys on my own team being really cool about it.

I'm still playing now, twenty years since I first started playing. A few more injuries now but I still love it. Might stop playing when I can't walk anymore...

I love soccer. I wish I were better at it because as it looks those 8 yr girls could probably beat me. haha.. It looks adorable -- and well worth watching. :) "I am a girl." That's right! Ntohin wrong with it...  

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I love soccer, i've been playing it since i can remember.

i hope they keep on kicking ass :]

seen this little girls so comfident and enjonying themselves is amazing....this girls got great skills...

i love soccer and have been playing it all my life...when i was younger my school didnt have a soccer team and so i decided to play w/ the boys...they wouldnt let me in the team because they said that i was going to get hurt and stuff like that but finally they let me play and i was the only girl in school playing w/ the boys...

-SP

 i used to play football lol or soccer for ages, up untill i was 15, i had to leave myteam coz  was moving...and then when i got sto my new town they didnt have one...i was really disappointed and as much as i played in my spare time with the kids near where i lived it eventually stopped....i miss it...i will sure be watching this....the good old days lol...this looks awesome :D

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Yeah, I'm proud. I wear my letter jacket still. I don't care that I'm a college grad. It's comfy and makes me feel special. I miss soccer :( Will definitely be seeing this! 

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I actually was a soccer "star" when I was younger, I remember I loved that game so, so much, and, if I have to say so myself, I was good. Really good. Like "is totally going to be a pro one day"-good. Which is actually what I dreamt about when I was a little over a decade younger. My mother, however, dismissed it with a "stop being so silly". 

Then as I got older, the pressure increased and I was told by my coaches that if I wanted to aim for a pro career, I'd have to choose between that and spending time at my schoolwork. So I quit. And frankly, I rarely regret it, but seeing all of these small girls enjoying the game, kicking the boys' asses and having a great time, it does make me miss playing a little. :) Maybe one day when they grow into their teens, and maybe some of them have a fair bit of talent, it won't be dismissed as being silly if they want to aim for the pro leagues.

Yeah, I play soccer all the time. When I was in middle and elementary school I was the only girl on our team, but the boys pretty much treated me as one of the guys. I think at times we'd all forget I was a girl, to be honest. But then, of course, the league I played for decided that after U-12 you couldn't play co-ed, so I've just been playing against guys at practice now. It's quite amusing because they'll be very noble with the whole "can't hit girls" thing until we start winning or I knock one of them down when they're trying to score and decide that hitting girls is allowed in soccer.

 I definitely hope these girls can keep playing ball and don't end up losing the excitement. And, ya know, keep kicking the boys' asses. ;)

today so thanks for mentioning it, and loved it. The fact that the girls only lost 2 games really says something imo about how men and women truly are equal if given the chance. I wonder if they will continue to play in the boys league. Also liked the boys comment on the on and off switch that the girls have.

"Come On Then Get These Good Done Debbies"

Happened to catch a bit of this while "surfing" this afternoon and almost immediately set my dvr. I played from kindergarten until the doctors refused to sign my medical waiver after my frosh year of high school. They were right to stop me--I was born with a congenital ankle deformity and had had three aggrivating injuries just that season--I certainly wasn't going to stop on my own! When I started playing (circa 1980), it was on a coed team with a bunch of dreamy boys who always seemed surprised when something like the ball beinng kicked their way brought them out of the clouds and into the game. I don't think that coed team ever won a game, but I didn't like the idea of being put onto an all girls team when the local soccer association broke us up after two or three years together. What did I know? :)

"I am not a champion of lost causes but of causes not yet won."

Norman Thomas as quoted by Sonia Satomayor in her Princeton yearbook

When I was in third grade I played with the boys. There weren't enough girls in my area for an all girls team so we were combined and played other coed teams in the area. I loved it. In sixth grade they separated us and I had a lot of trouble adjusting to playing with only girls. I preferred the level of play that the boys brought to the field.

Even today I still play with the guys when I get the chance. There are pick-up games in towns surrounding when I live and I love the opportunity to go show the guys that I can compete with them and that women aren't weak.

It's great that these girls have this opportunity. It can only make them better!! 

I wasn't the biggest fan of football, and when I was at school, it was in the days of sexist pig male teachers who said we couldn't use the pitch.  I managed to nag my P.E teachers to let us prove that we could play, and the female teachers make a mockery of it by having it 22 a side (with two damned balls in play).

I was brought up playing cricket - much more civilised (LOL) - and again met sexism (from female teachers!) who supported the men when they said we couldn't use the field.  So we played on the playground, which is nothing like a cricket ground, and had the rules amended so that it would accomodate the stupid place we were playing.  I was last to bat, needed 6 to win, was told if it went over the fencing I was out.  Bloody ball couldn't have hit the fencing and stayed inside, could it?!  Bitter?! Damn right I am.  LOL

But had the pleasure of watching Scunthorpe United beat Millwall at Wembley for promotion.  Come on IRON!

Just watched the trailer and the comment the little girl made about what she thinks/says when people say "You kick like a girl" - I had an aunt pass comment to my uncle once about my bowling (for cricket) action, laughing as she exclaimed "She bowls like a boy"

My uncle responded by saying, "What do you expect?  She was taught how to bowl properly by her father"

I never played soccer myself so far, only learned to appreciate it when co-organizing an international women's football camp last year. Would love to watch this documentation, those girls are just gorgeous, too bad it doesn't show over here... Might go for the DVD though.

and I am now 33 and still playing.  Most of the guys on my co-ed team would love to be able to kick like me.  I love that these girls are challenging themselves, in the end it will only make them better.  And if they can turn some stereotypes on their heads while they do it, then that is even more awesome!