Rangers have ambitions to take up a ground-breaking and pioneering role in Scottish Women’s football, according to Rangers Women’s and Girl’s football manager Amy McDonald.
The pioneering role Rangers will play in women’s football in the country carries on from Rangers’ decision to integrate the women’s side with the club’s footballing department [Rangers.co.uk].
The move means the Rangers women’s side will play their home matches at the Hummel Training Centre, there are now three full-time members of staff, and there will be investment will in signing professional players.
“It is a huge step for the club and it is probably huge for Scottish football,” Amy McDonald told Rangers.co.uk.
“I think we need to recognise where the game is at but the fact is that we have got the opportunity to create something that could be groundbreaking in the country.
“To be providing our Academy players with the best opportunity to progress to a pathway that will allow them to be a professional or semi-professional football player is unbelievable, I just wish I was 15 years younger!”
It’s great to see the club be so ambitious and continue to build on Rangers’ sterling reputation as a pioneering force in Scottish sports and society.
Rangers’ standards must be implemented at every level
With ex-Rangers star and coach Gregory Vignal put in charge of the women’s side, there’s real hope they can achieve success at Rangers.
The club has clear ambitions in the women’s game and McDonald makes it clear the same standards that are attached to the men’s side must be applied to the women.
“It is huge for us because we need to compete, it’s Rangers,” said McDonald.
“When I was the coach I don’t think I ever shied away from the fact that we knew where we were and we have still got a long way to go and we recognise that but to be able to attract a calibre of player and to be able to drive the standards on is massive.”
This inclusive investment isn’t just on the field either, with
Let’s hope this investment brings Rangers and women’s football in Scotland into the next stage of its own development.
