Brazil’s candidacy to host the 2027 Women’s Soccer World Cup will be promoted on behalf of the “South American woman”, the victim of severe gender inequality, the Sports Minister said in an interview with EFE. Ana Moser.
“Brazil has a very important presence in Latin America and especially in South America,” which is why “this is a candidacy that has the potential to affect women’s soccer in the entire region,” said the minister, a historic figure in Brazilian volleyball.
The venue for the 2027 World Cup will be chosen by FIFA in May next year. In addition to Brazil, South Africa and two joint candidacies were presented: the United States and Mexico on the one hand, and on the other Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The latter, according to Moser, will be “perhaps the biggest opponent” of Brazil, but if this candidacy prevails “it will bring the World Cup to Europe, where women’s soccer is already developed in almost all country,” he said, showing one. of his letters of dispute.
On the other hand, he emphasized that “South America has great development potential” and that the World Cup in Brazil will infect an entire region that “breathes soccer” and “will benefit in terms of visibility .”
A MACHO SOCIETY AND SPORTS
In Moser’s opinion, the low depth of the female modality in the so-called “football country” is “in a certain way the image of a macho society and sport”.
According to the minister, despite the success and promotion of other modalities, “the only sports culture that exists in Brazil is soccer, but it is for men, not for women, and that does not have of any meaning now.” “.
In a tone of complaint, he insists that “other feminine modalities are being developed but football is not”, a phenomenon he considers “emblematic” and the result of “cultural” issues present throughout society.
“The limitations that exist in Brazil in terms of the inclusion of women, blacks or less favored or underrepresented populations in the elite” are “issues that have parallels in other Latin American countries and societies must work,” he emphasized. .
In this sense, he affirmed that “the commitment” of the Government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is to encourage competitions, the creation of training centers and improve the structures of clubs to open more spaces for soccer of women.
STRUCTURES AND STADIUMS ARE READY
The candidacy for the 2027 World Cup is also in line with this, where Brazil already has the main structures, developed for the 2014 Men’s World Cup.
“That will justify the candidacy in itself. Brazil has already built twelve stadiums, twelve host city structures and that means a structural legacy that in itself will justify holding the World Cup” in country, he said.
“It is a structural legacy that can be used very well” and that will form, as in 2014, “an articulation of an entire country united around a great sporting event”, which will “outlook an entire region”. , predicted the minister.
Moser appreciated the support already shown for Brazil’s candidacy for Conmebol, based in Paraguay, where he was at the end of April and received a copy of the Copa Libertadores that he has in his office as a souvenir.
An office with history. Between 1995 and 1998 it was occupied by Edson Arantes do Nascimento “Pelé”, who died last year and was the first athlete to head that ministry.
Moser is the second, and the first woman in charge of that portfolio, so getting the venue for the 2027 World Cup will be of special value for this former volleyball player, who is a member of the Brazilian women’s team that rose to a team for the first time. Olympic podium, with bronze in Atlanta’96.
Source: La Verdad
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