Girls also want to be excited

The last social inclusion of women in Argentina Over the past two decades, it has awakened women’s football from a nearly century-long slumber in the shadow of male hegemony in the country. Lionel Messi and Diego Armando Maradonawhich will be right now Stephanie Banini.

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The albiceleste are now traveling across the ocean to return to cheer on a country that cheered its players on in the last friendly against Peru (4-0) in San Nicolás, a happy farewell with goals from laroquette, Banini, Rodriguez and Ares in front of 20,000 people before debuting against Italy next Monday, July 24 (8:00 Spanish time).

“Women’s football has grown in recent years thanks to the advancement of the feminist movement, political, cultural, social and economic changes, as well as the approval of laws such as marriage for all,” explained he. Ayelen Pujolformer soccer player and now journalist at a conference at the Deportea de Mar de Plata journalism school.

The fact that Argentina’s women’s team participated his fourth World Cup after 2003, 2007 and 2019 it is because of a long struggle. The movements against gender violence and in favor of abortion have made Football Association of Argentina (AFA) finally moved into women’s football, being declared semi-professional in 2019.

Although the first women’s soccer game in Argentina was played in October 1913it took a century for “the social movement in the streets to be associated with the recognition of soccer players on the field,” Pujol said.

But the visibility of women in Argentine soccer is not limited to the field of play. Never before have so many women filled the stands of men’s league stadiums, and they celebrated the victory of the team of Leo Messi in Qatar in December in the same way as men.

Most fans just found out that the edition of Mexico’86 It is not the first time that an albiceleste team beat England in a World Cup thanks to the “hand of God” and a “goal of the century” by Maradona (2-1).

In 1971, in a women’s World Cup organized not by FIFA but by private companies, in the same Azteca stadium and before 100,000 spectators, The Argentines were the first to beat an English team (4-1), thanks to four goals from elba jungle. “In Mexico, they praised me, but when we came back here, no one welcomed us, no one knew,” said Selva, now 75 years old.

The great work of ‘Pibas con Pelotas’

In 2006, after winning the South American championship, women’s football finally began to be recognized. So the “Pibas con Pelotas” movement was created., which brings together soccer players and coaches, citing the lack of specific fields and even jerseys, the lack of professional contracts or medical coverage in case of injury. In other words, in some rights that may be similar to those of men.

“If you get up at 6 in the morning and work all day, you’re not going to be a professional,” he explains. Camila Gomezformer midfielder for Boca Juniorsnow at the University of Concepción (Chile). The Bombonera neither helped achieve these milestones. “When I played for Boca, nobody came to us. We played on artificial turf fields. My shirts were too big,” he says. Julia Paznow a futsal player.

In Oceania the albiceleste await more popular support. And that the man succeeded, including the third star of Qatar 2022, finally available to, at least, achieve Argentina’s first victory in a World Cup. The team trained by German Portanova share the group with Italy, South Africa and Swedenand will try to hook a country that breathes football everywhere.