#woso history

[sccpmccabe]

"Women will not be allowed to practice sports that go against their nature, and for this purpose, the National Sports Council must issue the necessary instructions to the country's sporting entities”, said decree-law 3,199 of April 14, 1941. The article was created during the Vargas Era and was in force until 1983. During all this time, he banned, among the sports considered masculine, the practice of women's football in Brazil".

These were years of oppression. Years of struggle, losses, achievements, tears, sweat and lots and lots of blood. It has only been 41 years since the practice of football by women was allowed in Brazil and all the investment and visibility of this sport came in even more recent times, but still and as always, we overcame all adversities.

With just 41 years of freedom we managed to create a name and reputation for our women's team, we brought in important names that entered the history of the sport such as Sissi, Formiga and the most known of all, Marta. With all this history, we have two silver medals in Olympic games, third places in World Cups, several Copa América titles and football that enchants almost everyone.

Tonight, once again, we make history and exceed the world's expectations. After 16 years, the women's football team returns to compete in an Olympic final, beating France, the home team (and this being the first time in history that Brazil has won) and even more recently the current world champion, Spain, a team with countless strong and highly skilled players.

I can't express in words all the pride I feel for these women just for the fact that they exist, but even more so now that we're back to a time of glory even after a terrible group stage, but football is like that, at some point you're at the top of the world and in the next second you could be on your knees on the pitch, shedding tears over a lost game.

Minutes after the match, Jenni Hermoso gave the following statement to Spanish radio: "We conceded four goals from a team that, for me, doesn't play football. But in the end what matters are the goals. I believe these were our faults. We don't play our football. They study us, they know how to hurt us, for me it's not football. I don't like this type of football. Obviously, they gained minutes, they lost you time, and for them, that was worth it. They're in the final and we're going for bronze."

Even with everything we have achieved in such a short time and with immeasurable difficulty, they still try to diminish us, our achievements, our struggles. But the message at the end of all this is this: You may not like us, how we play, how we vibe, how we cheer on and off the field, our celebrations and seeing us at the top, but that doesn't matter because back in 1941, the majority didn't like it either, but still Here we are. In search of glory, once again.

[cruyffista]

A pennant from the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup, staged in Mexico. The tournament mascot on the pennant was named Xochitl, a given name in Mexico derived from the Nahuatl word for flower (x).

[melodiousoblivionao3]

Jona, I officially love you.

(Cc: @emotionalsupportsoccerball )

[fraudcelona]

ángel zárraga (mexican, 1886-1942) was the first artist to paint female footballers. his 1922 painting las futbolistas depicts three players from the champion french team sportives de paris. his work, though controversial in its day, came to represent the athletic and self-sufficient new woman of the post-war '20s

[alexbkrieger13]

OTD in 2019

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

Hello beautiful person, could you solve a doubt I have? I would appreciate it.

The Liga F has 16 teams: which of those have opened their main stadium for girls? We know RM don't but I've seen that Eibar have been playing there this season and Barça will play at Mestalla. Is this the first time Valencia have opened their stadium to girls?

hi lovely anon - so barça is the one team that has played regularly at the club's main stadium every year since 2022 at both camp nou and montjuïc.

but other teams have played on occasion as well:

atletí played barça back in 2019 at the metropolitano to a record setting crowd.

athletic club bilbao has played at san mamés.

real sociedad has played at anoeta.

depor has also played its matches this season at riazor.

levante has played at estadi ciutat de valència.

real betis has played at estadio benito villamarín in the past too.

granada has played at los cármenes in the past.

levante badalona is in a unique position become of its change and the lack of a high level men's team to match, but it plays at the estadi municipal de badalona.

madrid cff also doesn't have a men's team equivalent.

sevilla has played at estadio ramón sánchez pizjuán in the past.

tenerife has played at the estadio heliodoro last year

valencia has played against levante at mestalla before, so this is not the first time.

and meanwhile for real madrid:

[b14augrana]

CAMPIONES D’EUROPAAAAA!!!! 💙❤️

[katelynnwrites]

emily heaslip is just built different 💀

[sccpmccabe]

A beautiful campaign that unfortunately, once again, did not have the ending it should have.

For me, in particular, it is difficult to find words to describe the carousel of emotions that this edition of the Olympic Games gave me, especially in women's football.

In fact, it is already difficult to talk about women's football being played in Brazil, because it was considered a crime until recently. My mother was born at a time when the country prohibited women from playing sports that were considered masculine, and today she saw, once again, the Brazilian Women's Football Team reach the podium of the most important competition in the world of sports.

Marta Vieira da Silva, the greatest player in history, ended her career wearing the famous green and yellow shirt, which in itself is already emotional, but when you remember that she was born just 3 years after women's football was discriminated against, it carries an even greater emotional burden and made me fall to my knees in tears. We are talking about just 41 years of activity in the entire country. The first edition of the Olympic Games that included women's football as a sport was in 1996, and Brazil was already competing in it, just 13 years after the ban was lifted.

We are talking about an unequal country, which was colonized, exploited and always underestimated in many aspects and whose repercussions of genocide and exploitation and all the violence that was necessary for this are still reflected in modern society. We are also talking about the only team, along with the USWNT, that has played in every edition of the Olympic Games in women's football since 1996. And there is still an even more surprising fact in all of this, this is the first edition in which Formiga (an exceptional football player who retired a few years ago, for those who don't know) does not participate. She wore our colors from 1996 until Tokyo 2020/21.

We will be the next host of a World Cup where a very promising generation of players will give their best once again and try to bring joy to their people who have often despised them, but who they still fight for and to put a smile on their lips. We have a multi-champion coach in charge who knows what women's football is and who has always lived by it and has already proven himself in the position after taking Brazil to an Olympic final after 16 years of the last one with just 10 months in charge.

Once again we will be fighting against expectations and statistics, the journey has never been easy and it won't be, but we have hope (as always) that better days will come and that the whole world will see us shine at the top, which is the place we always deserved.

After all, we are talking about Brazil, and it is no secret that our Brazilian way always stands out in some aspects and that is what charms us. As long as there are people to wear our colors and represent us in any sport, millions of people will be there to cheer and bother whoever is necessary.

Que orgulho de vocês, minhas meninas! Dois mil e vinte e sete é o nosso ano e eu vou estar nas arquibancadas do Maracanã pra ver aquela taça ser erguida por vocês 🫶🏼

[cruyffista]

Manchester City Ladies Football Club in the late 1990s (x).

[onabatlle-2]

hell of a day and what a win, via sefutbolfem’s on twitter, 11/8/23

[pernillecfcw]

The blues third kit💚💙

[cypher2]

[pajorko]

Lena Janssen ✨

[tracksuitlesbian]

[crystaldeclear]

Wendie Renard and Alexandra Popp lining up for the corner