#woso history

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"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).

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

This was probably on your old blog (sorry RIP!) but do you know the deal is between Alexia and Sam Kerr? Is there real beef there?

ah, the infamous "and this is competitive" tweet 😅 (no there is no real problem or rivalry between them, but it is a funny story - that alexia recounts below!)

so back in may 2019 on a day that so happens to have coincided with the champions league final between lyon and barça, sam kerr tweeted the following:

it also just happened when lyon had run up the score 4-0 against barça, and was viewed as a 'dig' on the level of competition in europe. (we all know sam kerr is menace on social media, but whatever 😅)

anyway, of course culers made a big deal of this and it made its way to the players too. fast forward to 2021 and chelsea plays barça and loses 4-0 in the champions league final, and everyone starts bringing up this tweet as karma. and alexia even made a side comment about it during her ballon d'or victory in 2021.

anyway, during an interview with visa, a reporter asked alexia about the whole saga and here is what she had to say:

source: visa españa (2021)

translation below the cut:

let's see, the story is that she was playing in the united states, if i'm not mistaken, and it was like questioning the level in europe, because just at that moment they (lyon) had just scored the fourth goal in a european final against olympique lyon. and she put it out publicly with irony of "and this is competitive...," as if implying that it's not.

and to begin with, i would say that sam kerr is a, i would say top 5, top 3 strikers in the world. i have nothing against her. i don't know her or anything, but it is true that for my taste that was not appropriate, it was unnecessary. in the end we are all colleagues in the profession, and well, it was a bit, i think it bordered on disrespect towards our team.

we have not thought about this tweet every day, much less have we worked hard only because sam kerr tweeted this one day. so fate had wanted us to face chelsea in our second european final, where she was the striker, and fate had also wanted the result to end like the first final but in our favour.

in the end, i always say that in football one day you are up, one day you are down and you never know. for me, she shouldn't have made that tweet, but well, in the end i don't know if she feels it was a mistake or not, but everyone has the right to make mistakes.

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[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

[b14augrana]

CAMPIONES D’EUROPAAAAA!!!! 💙❤️

[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]

decided to delve a bit deeper into the history of italian women's football after watching the juventus-roma match yesterday. essentially, the italian women's football league has existed in some form or another since 1968 and there's evidence that women's teams have existed in italy since the 1930s.

from the league's inception, it was very common for female equivalents for the major men's football teams like milan, inter or roma to be set up as amateur teams playing in the women's league without any "official" corporate connection to the clubs themselves (the exception is lazio, which has been connected to the main sports club since 1975) - presumably, the people who created these teams were fans of the club themselves, and wanted to represent the club even if they couldn't play for their team officially (or wanted to take advantage of the built in fanbase that the men's club already had).

serie a was relatively successful from the 80s onwards and attracted many top talents like rose reilly, susanne augustesen, pia sundhage, lone hansen and others. this coincided with the italian national team's success in international tournaments.

rose reilly, who played for acf milan and susanne augustesen, who played for lazio. both were achieved top scorer during their time in serie a.

in 2018, FIGC introduced an obligation for men's clubs to either start their own women’s football academy or establish a formal link with an already existing senior women’s team. this came after a period of lackluster results from the italian women's national team, so the FIGC hoped that this policy of integration would ensure better facilities and development of female footballers. it was also hoped that this would result in greater visibility for women's football.

the official men's clubs were given an opportunity in 2018 to take over the license of amateur women's clubs to start their own official female clubs. many clubs simply took over the amateur female club which they had previously had no official connection with (such as inter or roma) or took over a completely different amateur women's club (such as juventus taking over cuneo) and subsequently renaming it.

spreadsheet detailing the current serie a clubs and the relationship with their pre takeover club

the obvious criticism of the latter strategy is that it kills off well established women's clubs (like brescia, who had been very successful in both the italian league and europe, and subsequently had to start over in the regional leagues) and also kills off the amateur women's clubs that had previously been representing the official men's clubs.

brescia pre-takeover

serie a femminile has also been fully professional since the 2022/2023 season, ensuring that the players are fully paid - which is a welcome development for the growth of the league and women's football in italy as a whole.

further reading:

Integration between women’s and men’s football clubs: a comparison between Brazil, China and Italy (tandfonline.com)

S.S. Lazio Women's Football - LazioWiki

ACF Brescia, storia di una grande del calcio femminile - L Football

[katelynnwrites]

emily heaslip is just built different 💀

[onabatlle-2]

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

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

how does la masia work? do they live in a compound together and attend like a boarding school?

yes, that's exactly how it works. it's a residency program that combines football, education, and social activities. although it's been around for a while on the men's side, la masia opened its doors to female residents in 2021. prior to 2021, female footballers could attend la masia training, but they were not full-time residents. pari guijarro was the first female footballer to complete her schooling at la masia. you can read about the facilities here.

i'd recommend the following video about the history of la masia:

[pernillecfcw]

The blues third kit💚💙

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[pajorko]

Lena Janssen ✨