We're pleased to announce Eliot Sayavong will be sponsored by Impetus for the 2023/24 season.
Eliot made her debut for Pride Park against SK Vipers at the end of May 2021 and has now made 65 appearances scoring 7 goals. Eliot is composed and dependable, always seems to have time on the ball and is equally at home in centre midfield or at centre back.
Impetus is a women's football site that was launched in September 2019. Run by an editorial board of four volunteers, the site has over 100 volunteer writers, photographers, and TikTok content creators based on four continents. Over 60% of the team are female, and over 25% of their those are under the age of 21.
In 2023 the site was voted as Women’s Football Platform of the Year at the On Her Side Awards, with Impetus‘ graphics designer Paige Walder also named Women’s Football Designer of the Year at the same time.
Impetus attracts over three thousand hits to its site each week from around the world, with a particularly large audience in Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada, Sweden, France, and New Zealand, with tens of thousands on its Instagram and TikTok platforms where specialised content appears regularly.
In June 2022, the British Library announced that it was adding Impetus to its online archives due to the site representing “different aspects of UK heritage as well as important global events.”
Clearinghouse, based at the world-renowned Australian Institute of Sport, regularly includes links to Impetus articles on its daily bulletins which signpost the best articles on Australian sport, as recognition of the quality of the team’s coverage of Australian women’s football.
As well as sponsoring Pride Park's Eliot Sayavong, Impetus sponsor three other players in England, Scotland, and Wales as well as having a charity partnership with John Moriarty Football who support Indigenous Australian football development.
You can see more of Impetus’ work at http://www.impetusfootball.org/