It looks like I have officially joined the sports team – I got my first complaint.

And – surprise, surprise – it had to do with soccer. Oh, I’m sorry, football.

Not just any football. Women’s football. As in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which played out last month in China.

For the record, Germany won for the second time.

They beat Brazil.

Still with me?

I was afraid you might have nodded off there for a bit.

Cos the thing is, while I am all for supporting women’s sport and championing that bandwagon, no one really cares. Seriously.

It is sad and horrible and disgustingly inadequate, but it is the truth.

Because not enough people care, the networks don’t make it a priority to showcase, and because the networks don’t showcase the games, the sponsors don’t jump out of their skins to support the players, and because the sponsors don’t really support the girls, they have to struggle to make ends meet, meaning they don’t get to put as much effort into their game as they like – and the whole sorry cycle continues.

Don’t believe me?

When was the last time you went to a women’s game? Any game? (And your daughter’s netball carnival doesn’t really count.)

So Wendy, I’m sorry that I don’t write about women’s sport.

You need to hear about things in order to be able to write about them and sadly, you just don’t hear about the results that often.

Unless it is a 20-second voice-over tacked on to the end of a sports bulletin – which usually comes across as an afterthought.

I don’t agree with it, but it is just the way it is.

In fact, the only time I heard about the Women’s World Cup – other than Australia losing out and Germany’s ultimate victory – it didn’t exactly show the sport in a positive light.

Germany v Argentina, anyone?

Don’t remember it?

It made history.

Not in a good way – Germany flogged Argentina 11-nil.

It is the highest-scoring match in the Women’s World Cup history.

And for the round ball game, it was an embarrassment.

Would the Argentina officials ever send a men’s team that was that bad?

I think not.

Mostly because they would probably be afraid to return home.

Those fans tend to care a little too much about a game that revolves around kicking a ball.

Which kinda proves my point.

Because they didn’t blink about sending a team of amateur players to the World Cup.

Not that they really had a choice.

The country doesn’t even have a professional league for the gals to kick around in.

Which would kind of be like Australia sending a bunch of women who enjoy playing OzTag to play on the world stage against the big boys.

So if a football-mad country doesn’t worry about who it sends to the Women’s World Cup, then why is anyone else supposed to support it?

Yes, I know it is wrong.

And I think it is a disgrace that for a lot of women to be able to raise money to play the sport that they are damn good at, they have to take off their clothes and pose for naked calendars.

It’s fine if you have chosen to do that.

But if it is one of your only options, then you don’t have a lot of choice, do you?

I am but one woman.

Yet we make up about 51% of the world’s population.

So, if you want to hear more about women’s sport, then get out there and support it.

Sport is not a male-only domain.

But until more gals get over the “I’m just not interested, I’m just a girl” bandwagon, then they probably won’t be lining up to jump on the one heading to a women’s sporting match.