#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]

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

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Alex Scott

celebrating female Black football players through the Black History Month

“Keep being the role models that you continue to be to all those young girls that are told 'no, you can't'. Football is a better place with us all in it." (Alex Scott)

Alex Scott (born 14 October 1984) is known to be one of the best as well as threatening full-backs in the WSL history. She was a crucial player for Arsenal and England for more than 10 years.

The defender came from the Arsenal Academy and first began as a striker, but changed to the position she's now remembered as.

Scott scored an important goal for Arsenal during their UEFA Women’s Cup campaign (now the UWCL) making her one of the first English footballer who won the quadruple.

In recent times Alex Scott is a popular presenter, broadcaster and writer.

Achievements:

5 FA Women’s Premier League titles

1 WSL title

7 Women’s FA Cups

2 FA Women’s Premier League Cups

3 FA WSL Cups

1 UEFA Women’s Cup

140 caps and 12 goals for England

Reading list:

Alex Scott, How (Not) To Be Strong (her memoir)

Part two: Wendie Renard

image sources

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

what’s the deal with spanish teams having ‘real’ in their name, madrid, sociedad etc

is it like ‘united’ in english teams or? i get the athletic prefix in club names because it’s like charlton athletic in england

the word "real" in spanish means royal, so you can probably guess that there is a royal association with certain clubs (real madrid, real sociedad, real betis, real club deportivo espanyol, etc.) and you would be right! 👑 

so a little history lesson: during the early 1900s, football started to gain popularity worldwide and those who ran the precursor to real sociedad asked the king to confer a royal title upon the club in order to give it more prestige. remember that donostia was the summer holiday destination for the royal family. king alfonso XIII saw an opportunity to take advantage of the popular sport and align it with spanish royalty, thus he conferred the "royal" title upon certain clubs. these clubs will incorporate a crown into their logo. in fact, the royal family became so intermingled in football that even our national football federation is called rfef, which translates to the "royal spanish football federation."

now if you know anything about spanish history, you know that we had a very contentious civil war and dictatorship during the 20th century, and the royal family became associated with the right wing and nationalists. so of course, the teams with the real designation also carried a lot of political baggage. even in the basque country (which is more left leaning generally), real sociedad was historically connected with the upper class while athletic club bilbao was more thought of as the working class club (also the same stereotypes of donostia vs. bilbao).

it's no surprise that two of barça's biggest rivals are real madrid and (real club deportivo) espanyol. because of course, football in spain is very historically intertwined with politics in this country.

[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!!!! 💙❤️

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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]

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).

[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

[pernillecfcw]

The blues third kit💚💙

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Wendie Renard

celebrating female Black football players through the Black History Month

Wendie Renard was born on 20 July 1990 on the Caribbean island of Martinique.

"One day you'll see me on TV wearing this jersey."

That's what young Wendie Renard said to her mum after watching Marinette Pichon playing for the French national team.

In her childhood only a few girls played football. So it was all the more rare for the women in her family to say that she should play. They loved football as much as Wendie Renard did. Her mother played a bit and watched games regulary. While her aunt was a referee.

The French defender remembered:

"I came to Lyon very young and got to know players with the winning gene. You learn that step by step. Training is like war: you play a short game and want to win at all costs. You progress by playing with other great players who hate losing and having coaches who instil it in you. When the coach tells you ‘win, win, win’, you don't think about ‘lose, lose, lose."

‘When I was little, I clearly wanted to win titles, but even more important was success on the mainland. I enjoy the moment but I know that I always have to ask more of myself - it can all be gone if I make one mistake. I know how I've developed and what I've achieved in my team and with players who are as confident as I am. We've achieved this together and it's not over yet. I will continue to write history."

She has been a regular at Olympique Lyon since the 2007/2008 season. Since 2013 Wendie Renard serves as captain. The defender is the all-time record holder for most appearances for her club and is the sixth highest scorer.

To this day, the French women's national team has yet to win a major international trophy.

Achievements:

8x Champions-League-Winner

14x French champion

9x French Cup winner

Reading list:

Wendie Renard, mon étoile (only available in French)

Movie recommendation:

Marinette (2023)

Part one: Alex Scott

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

I know this is a women’s blog so please feel free to ignore. I was wondering if you could explain why Barça never had a shirt sponsor and in recent times do? I know they had unicef but they never received money for that. I’ve read a bit online but can’t understand if there was controversy around the shirt sponsors or if it was just change in the times and needing the extra cashflow. Not sure if this is to do with the current financial standing with the club because my understanding is the first sponsor appeared in 2009? Thank you!

well, this blog is about barça femení and you can't separate the status of the women's team with what is happening with the men's team or the club as a whole. plus, these sponsorships also impact the women's team 🤷‍♀️

anyway, a history lesson: football shirt sponsorship can be traced back to the late 1970s but really took off in more modern times. barça had famously been a holdout in refusing to sell "real estate" on its football shirts to sponsors because of our principles ("més que un club"). in fact, from 2005 to 2010, barça actually donated money to the non-profit organisation UNICEF to display its logo on its shirts and never accepted money to do so.

but it was in 2010 when we signed our first sponsorship with qatar foundation, followed by deals with beko, rakuten, and spotify. and yes, it was all for financial gain as we were leaving money on the table by not signing up sponsors, as this is a common money making venture in global football.

however, this was the era of fc barcelona presidents sandro rosell and josep bartomeu. rosell was arrested for money laundering and kickbacks in 2017 and spent almost two years in pre-trial jail before being released. and if you have been following barça news recently, then you know we can blame a lot of our financial woes on bartomeu. so, it was really around this time that you can trace a lot of the financial mismanagement that happened with the club (for example, look up the messi and neymar tax scandals).

so yeah, it is all connected. but i am glad that we moved away from the qatar deal, as that was quite the change in principles to go from unicef one year to qatar airways the next. unfortunately, there's no such thing as an ethical corporation anymore, but at least some are better than others 😬

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