Women’s football has its day, which commemorates a true milestone achieved by girls in a fairly unfavorable context.
Women’s football continues to grow in Argentina, although not by leaps and bounds as in other parts of the world. The struggle of previous generations for making their passion a professional sport generated that Every August 21, Argentine footballer day is celebrated.
The ephemeris dates back to a fact that It happened in 1971but for those who are closely followed by women’s football, today a feat as large as that group of players known as The pioneers They got in the context of those years.
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The history of the first triumph of the women’s football pioneers
To understand the meaning of such a feat you have to establish a context, and it is that, While it was called World Cup, that tournament was not official. FIFA only in 1991 began to intervene in the organization of official events in the women’s soccer branch, which was not even professional. Not to mention in 1971, so the support of the federations did not exist or was allocated as many resources as possible.
This contest, called World Cup, but without any confederation that supports them, was to gain visibility. It was organized in Mexico and the Argentine National Team presented, with only 16 playerswithout a coach and a little amount of clothing, but with bags loaded with dreams and enthusiasm.
That did not prevent a Azteca Stadium Where years later Diego Maradona would achieve wonders to the world in the 1986 World Cup, this group has achieved something that the few who followed them. Against all forecast, The pioneers They thrashed England for 4 to 1. This meant not only a great triumph: He was the first in a female world cup.
The difficult path of the Argentine National Team to get to the World Cup in Mexico
If we talk before the players had to travel to Mexico without a coach, that will have been the least of the problems. To begin with, if today’s support is something acceptable, that of that time did not exist. To that we must add the hostile and macho climate that they lived every time they had contact with the ball.
The delegation knew they were against the world, So there was a very important job of both the campus and the few who supported them to achieve the necessary resources to travel and participate in such competition. They organized sales, raffles, raffles and endless activities to raise enough to go to Mexico and be part of the competition.
While today there is support, this does not mean that the path to travel is long and is needed even more to finish leaving behind those days where there were few who listened to them. But it is such a cultural struggle that in the short term it seems impossible that positive results are seen, although achievements that years ago were unthinkable as the professionalization of women’s football have been achieved.
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