#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).

[didalexiabreakupwitholgayet]

thanks for everything, legend! 🫡

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[melodiousoblivionao3]

Jona, I officially love you.

(Cc: @emotionalsupportsoccerball )

[alexbkrieger13]

OTD in 2019

[b14augrana]

CAMPIONES D’EUROPAAAAA!!!! 💙❤️

[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

[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]

Wilma Seghetti with her coach Giuseppe Cavicchi at the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico (x).

[pernillecfcw]

The blues third kit💚💙

[didalexiabreakupwitholgayet]

super random but is laia codina like super catalan or smth😭😭? i keep seeing so much abt it (aitana as well?)

haha absolutely. if you think alexia is a proud catalana, then laia and aitana are next level, super catalan.

starting with laia, she is the stereotypical, country bumpkin catalan. 😂 she's from a small village near girona and grew up on a farm (her dad and uncle are farmers). in fact, her ex-barça teammates often joke around with her about all her family's cows. plus, if you compare the way laia speaks catalan to the way alexia speaks catalan, it's like alexia has the urban/city barcelona accent and demeanor, and laia has the whole folksy, rural vibe going on. let's just say if you are trying to learn catalan, don't start by listening to laia! 🙈 (also, here's jenni hermoso saying she wants to hug one of her cows 😂)

but no one, and i mean no one, is as proudly catalan as aitana bonmati. first of all, her parents are professors of catalan language and literature. but more interestingly, they are catalan independence and marxist leaning activists. her father was even arrested and accused of being a member of a catalan paramilitary group. (he was later acquitted). her family's history is super interesting and it's common knowledge by now that this activism extends into gender equality and she took her mother's surname (bonmatí) first, followed by her father's, which is quite rare in spain. and we know speaking spanish annoys her. 😂

and finally, aitana is been a very vocal member of the recent movement to add catalan as one of the official languages of the EU. 

“I wanted to give value to Catalan. It is my language, with which I express myself every day and with which I do it best. I ask that it be recognized at the European level. It's my language and I have every right in the world to do it." - Aitana Bonmatí

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[pajorko]

Lena Janssen ✨

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