Women's sports programmes are set to see a marked increase in funding next year as part of the Youth and Sports Ministry’s 'Women 2020' initiative, minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said today.<br /><br />"We are going on a very ambitious plan to ensure that we increase, to an exponential extent, sports funding for women's football, futsal, netball, rugby and many others.<br /><br />"We will work very closely with the Education Ministry to ensure that sports education in schools, particularly, will also largely help women to a great extent (so that) they play a lot more (sports).<br /><br />"In the end, we can come up with more women athletes in the whole sports ecosystem," he told the press after officiating the Malaysian Youth Council (MYC) annual conference in Cheras.
