World Sevens Soccer are in talks with main golf equipment a few new seven-a-side girls’s soccer collection that’s scheduled to start out in Could.
Video games within the new “revolutionary grand slam collection” might be performed on a area half the scale of a typical soccer pitch and contain two 15-minute halves, with additional time for tie-breakers.
World Sevens Soccer (W7F) are in talks with golf equipment, together with sides from the Ladies’s Tremendous League in England, however haven’t but confirmed which groups might be concerned.
The primary occasion is scheduled to happen from 21-23 Could in Estoril, Portugal and might be broadcast reside by streaming platform DAZN.
Nevertheless, the 2 golf equipment competing within the Ladies’s Champions League ultimate in Lisbon on 24 Could is not going to be concerned within the first version.
The collection, which has a $5m (£3.85m) prize pool per occasion, is backed by US-based philanthropist Jennifer Mackesy, co-owner of NWSL membership Gotham FC.
“World Sevens Soccer is designed to raise the ladies’s recreation, offering gamers with a strong new platform to showcase their expertise, develop their private manufacturers, and supply financial alternative in a approach that really displays their worth,” stated Mackesy, who can be a minority shareholder in Chelsea’s girls’s group.
It’s understood W7F may have a wider pool of groups from which to decide on for every occasion, with future tournaments deliberate throughout the US, Mexico, Asia and Europe.
Organisers stated they’re placing gamers at “the guts of the sport” by creating an participant advisory council which is being led by former United States winger Tobin Heath and consists of ex-England defender Anita Asante.
“We’re constructing World Sevens Soccer with the participant on the centre of every part we do,” added Asante.
“This competitors offers one other stage the place gamers can shine whereas providing an awesome, probably profitable alternative. It is soccer, however sooner, bolder, and made for the longer term.”