Soccer is not only men’s business - women at World Cup

Soccer is not only men’s business - women at World Cup

The decades-long exclusion of female fans and players bred a backslapping, violence-prone male soccer culture that put off even more women, said psychologist Ursula Kessels of the Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Germany's national women's team is No. 1 in the world, ahead of the United States. The Germans won the 2003 World Cup and are six-time European champions. A women's Bundesliga was formed in 1991, according to the AP.

Today, 12 percent of the 6.3 million members in Germany's soccer clubs are women. Soccer has become the No. 1 team sport for girls.