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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  We live in Brussels.  Weird that everyone is challenging me on whether girls leagues exist; they do, but we've only found that they start when the girls are older.   I'm not invested in soccer at all!  I find it super boring, actually, and never played.  I'm sad because my daughter seems to love it, and has only decided not to play because the boys are more aggressive and don't seem to like having a girl on the team.  She definitely doesn't gravitate toward girly stuff, and is having a hard time this year figuring out her place on the playground, since she's no longer on the soccer court.  We are organizing a lot more playdates with the girls, but it's been a challenge.  [/quote]

OP- I feel for you.  It appears half the posters aren't even reading your post correctly.  I'm actually Spain and I can tell you that my view on women changed after I married my wife who is an American.  Now that I have 2 daughters of my own, I'm ashamed as to how I treated girls when I was younger.  There is a gender divide and sports are focused on boys until the last decade or so.  I feel sad for your daughter because I was one of those little boys that would "not" pass to that girl or take the ball to her a bit harder than I would normally do.  I would approach a few of the boys families to set up a supervised game for fun.  Don't be surprised if the parents don't bite or even care about your daughter.[/quote]

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