Winnie McKenna

Ambassador for Women’s Football

Stories, lives, educational resources

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Stories

Fashion FC: Venezia’s rebirth

Style over substance? Venezia FC gained a cult following for their designer kits. Footballing success is still to come.

Stories

The other side of Just Fontaine

Though he is remembered for scoring the most goals in a World Cup, Fontaine also worked tirelessly to defend footballers’ rights.

Stories

Football and Crypto: the new frontiers

Crypto companies want to increase their visibility and the world of sport, especially that of soccer, is the perfect way.

FMH SOCIAL MEDIA

Feeding your feed with football.

Stories that score

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Alice Milliat circa 1913 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

Paolo Maldini, AC Milan 1996/97 (Source: UEFA Champions League, #FlashbackFriday Tweet. May 19, 2017).

Lives

Alice Milliat

Organiser for gender equality through sports.

Lives

Paolo Maldini

Paolo Maldini’s career seems too good to be true, stylish on and off the field, his life has never been touched by failure or scandal.

Lives

Nettie Honeyball

"Nettie" was a pioneer of women's football. Her story is about diversity, equality and education.

Quote of the week

What I know most surely in the long run about morality and obligations, I owe to football

Albert Camus, 1957.

Must watch videos

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FC Union Berlin: A rebellious football club in a rebellious city

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FC Union Berlin: A rebellious football club in a rebellious city

David Goldblatt in his studio in Bristol.

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Why Teach Football History?

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The Most Dangerous Game of Football: Calcio Storico

Odd Frantzen and the Norway team at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

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The football signpost to WWII

David Goldblatt in his apartment in Bristol (Photo: FMH).

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Football: A People’s History of Europe?

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The Right to Play

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The Climb to Equality

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The amazing story of Sierra Leone’s Amputee Team

The Mad Grandma (Photo: COPA90 Stories).

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The Mad Grandma: Botafogo’s 83-year-old superfan

Diversity & discrimination

Thematic tips

Students talk with FC Den Bosch player (photo: DTV Nieuws).

Stories

One full schoolweek on football and Europe?

This article co-written by students narrates the football and society related activities organised by a school for an entire week.

Appie Nouri

Uniting the City in Talent and Tragedy

Egyptian striker Mo Salah (Photo: Fars Media Corporation).

Mo Salah’s Song to Integration

How is English football coming to terms with religious diversity?

Engage young people with football history

Teaching diversity and social inclusion through football

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21 short stories of football in Amsterdam

Amsterdam’s history through football stories

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Marcinkus rushing to the ball, 18th of May 1928 (Photo: Svetys).

Romualdas Marcinkus

Stephanie Frappart

French team, winner of the Football World Cup 2018 in Russia (Photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office, kremlin.ru).

France in the mirror of football

Life Stories

Football Makes History gathers life stories of unique individuals that help us connect the history of football to diversity and inclusion.

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Zvonimir Boban

Yugoslavia, Italy, Croatia

Bibiana Steinhaus

Woman in Authority

Didier Drogba

Footballer for Truth

Justin Fashanu

Casualty of prejudice?

Educational Resources

Latest learning activities & collections

Athletic Club Bilbao and Real Sociedad carrying the Ikurinna, the Basque flag.

We. We are the best

Helping students define nationalism by looking at photos of football matches and reflecting on the main expressions of it in the stadiums.

The US National Team lifts the world cup in 2019 (Photo: AppaIoosa on Flickr).

Equal Pay for Equal Play

How is the gender pay gap reflected in women’s football and what can be done to change it? How do we help students reflect on this?

Soldiers in Congo in uniform, approx 1910-1925 (Source: Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen).

Football, Colonialism, and Migration

How did football evolve over time in both the Congo and Belgium? How has football (environments) been used beyond playing a sport? This is a learning activity to help students explore these topics.

A mob football match played at London’s Crowe Street (Source: WikiCommons).

Spread of football as cultural history

Students can explore 19th and 20th century global history through the cultural spread of the game.

The new front facade of the stadium after the name change (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

Three Presidents and the 1938 Racial Laws in Italy

How to study the impact of national law and policies on everyday life? This resource helps students investigate how the Racial Laws in Italy impacted sport.

Lucy Bronze chasing the ball (Photo: Dominique Mallen, WikiCommons).

Beyond imitators of men

Through examples from football, we can encourage students to think out of the box on complex issues such as equality and inclusion, and ask thought-provoking questions.

FC Bayern Munich Fans on Fire with Bengalos (Photo: Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash).

Chants in Football. Beyond the Fan and the Other

What if your students could talk with someone who has been hurt by a football chant, asking them why and analysing the chant with them?

Girl fight, Iceland – Spain, They are back. More fierce than ever before since they must win tomorrow. The show starts at Laugardalur stadium at 18. Free entry. Everyone must show up (Copyright: Football Association of Iceland (KSI), Morgunblaðið).

Women’s struggle for equality and respect in Football

Teaching students about gender inequality in football and the ethics of advertisements by analyzing image sources.

Discover women’s football then and now a game of quartet

Where are the women’s football quartet cards?

Educational resources

Latest learning activities & collections

Learning Activities

We. We are the best

Helping students define nationalism by looking at photos of football matches and reflecting on the main expressions of it in the stadiums.

Learning Activities

Equal Pay for Equal Play

How is the gender pay gap reflected in women’s football and what can be done to change it? How do we help students reflect on this?

Source Collections

Football, Colonialism, and Migration

How did football evolve over time in both the Congo and Belgium? How has football (environments) been used beyond playing a sport? This is a learning activity to help students explore these topics.

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Toolkit

Toolkit for using historical and cultural heritage dimensions of football to enhance social inclusion and promote diversity in non-formal setting.

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Inclusion & Integration

Thematic Tips

Lives

Chérif Souleymane

A pioneering African footballer in the DDR

First hours after the earthquake, 26 July 1963 (Source: State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia).

On This Day

Football as a post-disaster charity

Today in 1964, a football match was organised between Yugoslavia and a UEFA team “Rest of Europe”.

National Football Museum, Manchester (Photo: Ank Kumar, Wiki Commons).

Stories

Unleash the potential of football museums

This article is the result of a webinar series from EuroClio which tackled football and social issues to explore how football history and society intertwine.

Stories

Let the students decide!

History uses Football Makes History is the classroom to teach about equality and let’s students decide!

Football in Cultural Heritage

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Discussion on Heritage and Football at imagine IC.

Lives

Romualdas Marcinkus

Baltic views on WWII through the eyes of a young player turned pilot.

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Stephanie Frappart

Stephanie Frappart was chosen to referee the UEFA Super Cup final in Istanbul, between Liverpool and Chelsea. Her story is one of equality, diversity and breaking the mould.