Children will celebrate ‘Girls Football Day’ on 11 October – UNICEF 7 October – As the Women’s World Cup for football draws to a close next week, children around the world will celebrate Global Girls Football Day on 11 October, a day jointly designated by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the sport’s governing body to spotlight the UN agency’s efforts to get more girls into school. UNICEF and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) teamed up this year, they said, to highlight the right to play and the right to education, two crucial areas of child...