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When the German FA banned women's football...

Baerbel Wohlleben, first German women's football champion and first woman winning the award "goal of the month" in 1974 [Courtesy]

At 75, former footballer Baerbel Wohlleben still clearly remembers the moment in 1974 when a journalist asked, "but when you head the ball, doesn't it mess up your hair?"

At that time, Wohlleben had already turned 30, but was only officially three years into her career as a footballer, because until 1971 the German Football Association (DFB) banned women from playing in competitions.

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