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The Yuanshen Sports Centre in Shanghai, one of the two venues for the Future Star Cup.

Real Madrid and Real Sociedad take youth teams to Shanghai: fixtures for the first women's Future Star Cup

Eight U17 teams will compete from 16 to 22 August. Real Madrid's Juvenil side open against China PR, while Real Sociedad begin against Arsenal.

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Skechers reserves half the places at its Football Lab for girls

The growth of grassroots women's football in Spain has enabled registrations to exceed 127,000.

127,000 licences and a girl who wants to be a footballer

The league that wasn't built for them

The participants of the Fundación Canaria Tenerife Costa Adeje clinic, alongside the coaching staff, at the Armeñime ground (Adeje).

Two days training with the first-team staff: the Fundación Tenerife's girls' clinic stops in Adeje

The football pitch at Henningsvær, in Norway's Lofoten Islands, surrounded by the sea. For many girls, having somewhere to play looks like this: the pitch exists, but getting to it is not always easy.

A guide to signing up a girl for football (mission impossible)

A stripper at the youth team's party: what the Bonrepòs case exposed about grassroots football

The hidden treasure: the structural keys to Spanish dominance at youth level