'The goalkeeper's terror'
Uruguayan Claudina Esther Vidal is a giant in the world of women's football and made headlines in 1971 when she became the first woman to join a professional men's team.
When Uruguayan Claudina Esther Vidal was a teenager she played centre forward for her local women's football team, scoring so many goals she was nicknamed 'the goalkeeper's terror'. In 1971 she made headlines when she became the first woman ever to play for a professional men's team. But it wouldn't be easy to get the world of football to take her seriously 鈥� and many believed that women shouldn't play the sport at all. Outlook's Louise Morris went to meet her.
In the 1960s English civil servant Richard Adams drove his daughters Juliet and Rosamund to school and told them a story to pass the time. The tale was about rabbits trying to find a new place to live after developers move onto their field, and it became the best-selling children's classic Watership Down. Juliet and Rosamund tell us about the novel that changed their family's lives.
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(Photo: Claudina Esther Vidal. Credit: Claudina Esther Vidal)
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