Fremantle Dockers players attended WA Female Football training sessions on Tuesday, to help continue the impressive growth of women’s football in WA. 

Players put their coaching skills to the test as they took the girls through warm-ups, ball drills, goal kicking and even opened up the floor for questions at the end. 

At the training session at 'Mater Dei College' in Edgewater, Freo’s Tendai Mzungu said it was uplifting to see the growth and popularity of women’s football.

“It’s a great part of our game and it’s only growing,” Mzungu said.

“There’s a ton of girls playing the game now, and that’s evident from the amount we have down here today.”

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In 2015, there were close to 50,000 women playing community football and Mzungu said it was important for the Freo players to champion the women’s competition.

“We’re here to show them some skills, and teach them a bit of what we do,” he said. 

“But most importantly just get them involved, because we think it’s the greatest game on earth.” 

Teammate Garrick Ibbotson was also at the session and said his experience with women’s football had left him confident about the long-term future of female football in WA. 

“I’ve been to a couple of these clinics before, and last year we did a similar thing too,” Ibbotson said.

“I’ve also seen the women’s competition played before our games and the standard is really high, so I was very impressed when I saw it.

“Hopefully some of the girls here today will be playing in the national women’s league at some stage in the future.”