In response to issues raised by gamers concerning discomfort in periods while donning white shorts, the Football Association (FA) on Monday introduced a strategic substitution of the standard white shorts with blue ones for the England girls’s workforce, with quick impact.
While the FA didn’t present a cause for the swap in its media launch, England ahead Beth Mead had mentioned final yr that the workforce had spoken to official equipment producer Nike a couple of potential change as a result of white shorts have been “not practical when it’s the time of the month.”
European champions England will put on blue shorts for each their house and away kits for this month’s friendlies towards Brazil and Australia and on the Women’s World Cup, which will probably be held in Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to Aug. 20.
Women’s groups at Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion have since switched to navy and burgundy shorts, respectively, whereas the Ireland girls’s rugby workforce additionally introduced a change to navy blue shorts final month.
The problem of girls athletes carrying white clothes was additionally introduced up ultimately yr’s Wimbledon tennis championships when feminine gamers spoke concerning the nervousness of being compelled to put on white in periods.
The grass courtroom Grand Slam will make an exception to its strict all-white gown code and permit feminine gamers put on darkish coloured undershorts from this yr’s match.
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