Michele Kang believes London City Lionesses' planned grooming crushed volition acceptable a caller modular successful the women's crippled and surpass facilities utilized by the bulk of men's Premier League clubs.
Over the summer, Kang boosted the Women's Super League broadside with important concern successful players, including the signing of two-time Ballon d'Or victor Alexia Putellas.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Kang revealed a purpose-built grooming centre is expected to unfastened wrong the adjacent year.
She said: "We're gathering a state-of-the-art grooming centre for our pistillate athletes dedicated to them, built and designed for them, which volition unfastened successful little than a year.
"Our architect, who has built respective Premier League grooming centres told maine that by the clip the London City grooming centre is up and running, it would beryllium amended than with the bulk of Premier League men's teams grooming centres."
Kang views concern successful infrastructure arsenic portion of a wider remit to guarantee pistillate athletes are nary longer treated otherwise from their antheral counterparts.
"How could you perchance judge the conception that your girls, your daughters, granddaughters, sisters are treated arsenic second-class citizens wherever successful the aforesaid athletics the boys spell to play arsenic if it's their birthright?"
She believes that for excessively long, women person been treated similar "small men".
"We person to instrumentality attraction of our pistillate players amended truthful that they tin train, perform, and thrive arsenic pistillate athletes, not tiny men," she said.
"You thrust your lad to a state-of-the-art grooming centre and then, if you're fortunate capable to person a installation nearby, you thrust your miss determination else. Why would you judge that?"
Kang is simply a beardown advocator of autarkic women's clubs and said that was 1 of the reasons she was attracted to London City Lionesses.
"My archetypal entree into women's shot was Washington Spirit, successful the United States, wherever 2 thirds of women's teams are autarkic and not affiliated with men's team. So to me, that's a batch much normal.
"I wanted to amusement that determination isn't conscionable 1 exemplary that the women's squad has to beryllium portion of the men's team, but an autarkic team, due to the fact that I deliberation astatine that time, London City and Durham, if I'm not mistaken, those are the two, women-only teams.
"I wanted to physique a women-only squad to amusement erstwhile you truly give each your attraction and resources and vigor into women's lone team, what's possible."
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