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Caitlin Davis Fisher

Caitlin Davis Fisher grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and captained the Harvard women’s soccer team. She later played soccer at the professional level in Brazil, Sweden and the United States before cofounding the Guerreiras Project in Brazil. She is now a researcher, ethnographer and futebol activist based in Berlin and on the Advisory Board of FIFPro Women.

Caitlin Davis Fisher grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and captained the Harvard women’s soccer team. She later played soccer at the professional level in Brazil, Sweden and the United States before cofounding the Guerreiras Project in Brazil. She is now a researcher, ethnographer and futebol activist based in Berlin and on the Advisory Board of FIFPro Women.

Soccer's female players may be the key to improving the management of the world's most popular sport, a former US player argues. (Pictured: America's Abby Wambach, walking off the field after her final appearance with the US team in December.)

Female game-changers in a field bent out of shape

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Former US soccer player Caitlin Davis Fisher knows about the inequities of world soccer. With the election of a new president for the world’s governing soccer body, there is an opportunity to improve the world’s beautiful game for all, she writes.