FC will enter female teams for the first time in the club's decade-long history. or signup to continue reading have played previously in the club's junior grades, but under 17, 15 and 13 girls outfits will contest the Victorian-based Community Premier League next year. "It's been a long time coming, the boys have been here for 10 years now and we're starting to see the fruits of our labor now in terms of our region," United technical director Jamie Monteith said.
"We don't have the luxury of thousands of kids we can choose from, that's our kryptonite, but it's also our super power that we're able to work with such a small group for a long time. "With the Matildas doing what they did in the World Cup and the amount of young girls that now want to take up the sport, it's a great opportunity to strike while the iron's hot and afford the opportunities to our girls that the boys have, it's an awesome milestone for the club. "We want our female athletes to have exactly the same opportunities as the boys.
" United was born in mid-2014 in an attempt to fast-track talented juniors, along with providing senior players with opportunities at a higher level. Monteith says the girls will soon see the improvements the boys have over the past decade. "Holistically they improve in every aspect and the reasons for that is because ultimately the training programs that we create; rather than training once or twice a week, they'll train three times a week," he offered.
"In turn, the competition th.