I was going to jump into this topic real hot and sweaty but I decided to cool my self a lil bit. Besides I see some of the fellas actually picking up for we women.
And some actually seem to forget that there are alot of knowledgeable women on this site. Women that have been here since before the first upgrade. So there are alot of trini women that know a great deal about football.
bUt to answer your question properly I guess from my own experience and what I could tell from my friends a guy would learn from small how to head or kick a ball their dads will take them to the savannah and take them to the games. I was a fortunate one my dad taught both my brother and I to do these things from the time I could walk. But to say that he was serious about me playing for a team well that really never happened, until he realised that there was a future for women in the sport.
Reasons being:
1. Alot of the women out there grew up in a generation when football "wasn't for girls" it was tooo rough. So girls really were not encouraged to play the sport at PE or other wise. Thank God times have changed.
2. Some fathers do not take the time to pass on their knowledge of the sport to their girl children. To the fathers out there do not have your girl child growing up asking "why they does call hiam a goal keeper"in public it wrong and embarassing.
3. I guess some fathers underestimate the skill of women footballers and their market value now.
4. Some of them really just go intercol for the lime and be cause there boy friend playing.
What u could do to each his/ her own but u have to master the skill of gaping, being gaped at and knowing the sport.
Not so fellas