Category Archives: Women’s World Cup

Netflix to Showcase 1999 Women’s World Cup Winners

by Dillon Payne

Last week, Netflix announced it has secured the rights to Jere Longman’s seminal book, The Girls of Summer: The US Women’s Soccer Team and How It Changed The World. The book, released in 2001, will be developed into a Netflix Original film. The movie will follow the 1999 U.S. Women’s…

May 19, 2020

FIFPRO Release Women’s Soccer Report

by Mike Koeshartanto

FIFAPRO, the global representative organization for over 65,000 professional players, recently published findings from a women’s soccer report that illustrates the economic evolution of the game, match attendance, TV audience, sponsorship, and player conditions. The report, entitled Raising Our Game, saw data collected from 186 female players from across the…

May 15, 2020

Podcast: Top Soccer Moments of the 2010s

by Mike Koeshartanto

On this episode, the GESM crew discuss the biggest business-related soccer stories of the 2010s, as well as their favorite on-field moments from a decade that brought us three Men’s and three Women’s World Cups, as well as countless other soccer memories. All this and more in the latest episode…

January 15, 2020

Highest Selling Soccer Jerseys in 2019

by Mike Koeshartanto

*UPDATE: check out our updated list of the highest-selling jerseys in 2020 here. We reached out to our friends at Soccer.com to get a lowdown on the highest selling soccer jerseys of 2019. When you consider all of the soccer events in the first nine months of the year, it’s not…

September 09, 2019

NWSL, ESPN, & Women’s ICC See Continued Growth

by Mike Koeshartanto

Over the past few weeks, the soccer industry has seen a number of great developments in women’s soccer. From media coverage expansion between the NWSL and ESPN to growth in the nascent Women’s ICC tournament, let’s review. ESPN expands coverage of NWSL Weeks after seeing the NWSL sign a deal…

August 25, 2019