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Sylvia Gore, MBE, (born 1946) is an English former international football midfielder and coach. She scored the England women's national football team's first ever goal in the first official match, a 3–2 win over Scotland in Greenock.Gore's father and uncle both played football for Prescot Cables and encouraged Sylvia to take up the game. The headteacher of her school vetoed any participation in the school team but she joined Manchester Corinthians in her early teens. With Corinthians Gore played in charity matches all over the world at a time when the Football Association (FA) had banned female players from its pitches. She said:In 1974 Gore helped Fodens, originally a works team from the Edwin Foden, Sons & Co. lorry manufacturing plant in Sandbach, shock Southampton in the final of the Women's FA Cup. Gore recalled:Gore was known as the Denis Law of women's football and once netted 134 goals in a season. It cost her around £2,000 to progress through a series of trials for the first England team. After Gore stopped playing at the age of 35, she managed the Wales women's national football team and spent many years as a voluntary girls' football coach in her native Merseyside. In 1999 she won a special achievement award at the inaugural FA Women's Football Awards. A longstanding member of the FA women's committee, in 2014 Gore became the first female director at the Liverpool County Football Association.