Women's association football are over 700 intercollegiate women's soccer teams playing for many types and sizes of colleges and universities. This includes colleges and universities that are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA)." The majority of women footballers around the globe wear a traditional kit made up of a jersey, shorts, cleats and knee-length socks worn over shin guards. In 2004, FIFA President Sepp Blatter suggested that women footballers should "wear tighter shorts and low cut shirts... to create a more female aesthetic" and attract more male
Hotpants as they did in early 1971. According to the fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, the term "hot pants" was coined by "Women's Wear Daily" ("WWD") in 1970 to describe fashions innovated by the French ready-to-wear company Dorothée Bis. The "WWD" claim to have originated the term is also backed up by 1971 articles in "The New York Times" and the African-American magazine "Jet". "Jet"s fashion editor, Audrey Smaltz, suggested that because hotpants were best suited to Black women, they should be called "Knockout Shorts" as that name was more "relevant to Blacks", expressing the fashionable African-American Black woman's pride in her