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They will no doubt remain friends until the 2020 event.
After all the football was played, the fatigued limbs
seemingly got a new lease of life on the dancefloors of
the respective clubhouses in what was affectionately
described by one observer as resembling the world's
largest hen party.
As the players left the pitches arm in arm and proceeded
to dance the night away, it was very appropriate that for
one day they were both a mother, an other, but also a
footballer there to be themselves. They were there to play
football, despite the fact that most people cease playing
sports at a certain age because that's what society or
someone tells them to do. In the past, mothers didn't play
football. Now they do. In the past, ladies stopped playing
football at a certain age. Now they don't. They were there
to enjoy themselves as themselves and this was in fact
the day's, and the participants', greatest achievement.
