Women's football team to play in bikinis..
 

A women's football team in Russia will play their next match in bikinis in an attempt to draw more fans.

WFC Rossiyanka, based in Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow, has struggled with deteriorating ticket sales despite club success. Its members now hope that competing half-naked will resolve the crisis, The Sun reports.

The club has won the Russian women's top-tier football league three times in 2005, 2006 and 2010 and played in the women's UEFA Champions League in the past two seasons.

Team coach Tatyana Egorova explained: "We are the best woman's team in Russia and have won many championships, even representing our country in the UEFA Champions League.

"But few people have ever heard of us, and we don't get many people coming to games. So we've decided to give our profile a boost by appearing in bikinis."

The players have already posed in bikinis in a photoshoot ahead of the upcoming game and Egorova said that she is optimistic about the publicity stunt.

"We hope it will also improve the numbers of tickets we sell," she continued. "We think it's a good idea - our players are beautiful, great athletes and determined to win."

Where's my season ticket?:p:joker:

Give us a picture of the team .....

And people wonder why most view womens football as a joke :rolleyes:

Bikinis are so 20th/21st century. Can I suggest that they follow the traditions of the ancient Greek Olympics and just play naked? Reinstituting that tradition will bump their viewership 10 fold, me thinks. :dance:

True but there is a few good women's players:).

There are some good womens football teams but this stunt is rather silly.

Fans of boobs not women football :joker:

Now picture this scene with them wearing bikinis:



:lovedup:

"A League of Their Own" is one of my favourite movies. That movie kinda deals with issues like this, about sexism in sports. Madonna was awesome in it too.

Yup...this is really not gunna do anything to help that cause :/

"hey that's not a baseball uniform it's a dress!" "yea, what do you think we are... baseball players or ballerinas!!??"

yeah............playing in bikinis is going to get them taken seriously..................

Every womens team should be forced to

If only Sepp Blatter wasn't an old man

yay casual sexism

Remind me to bring a toy. :p

This.

Nothing like a bit of cheap publicity. If they were that good at their sport, it would be enough. Clearly they are rubbish and no one is interested in anything other than them getting their kit off, quite literally.

:hugesmile:

That's them earned one more fan right here :tongue:

For the skills in dribbling or ball control perhaps! :devil:

A League Of Their Own <3.

Mae Mordabito (Madonna): What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops., my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right?

Doris Murphy (Rosie) : You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?

:laugh:

Tbf if it does save the club from having to fold you cant really blame them for giving it a try

Things like this dont help either from a womens world cup game on sunday the ball hits the post so the defender catches it then throws it on the floor next to her keeper and the referee waves play on :joker:

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