The curtain slipped away from the Theater of Dreams, and thousands upon thousands of women were beaten for bringing their sport here.
What an incredible opportunity they have now.
Men’s soccer is off – this is a chance for the ladies to build a better one.
From Crouch End in North London to Stratford in Manchester, a 130-year journey from a stunning first release to an ultra-modern entertainment product. Homecoming Football For the second time in a year, men’s and women’s football was invented on these islands, with very different driving forces.
This is a European Championship that had to be moved to for the European Men’s Championship, a European Championship that will be a festival to celebrate the progress of football.
England meet Austria tonight, at the all-sold-out Old Trafford, with Sarina Wiegman topping the list of favorites on home soil. I think of the recent tournaments, in 2017 when I heard Lieke Martins talk about the relief of having Wegmann as a coach, a captain who was capable and was passionate about women’s football, rather than the men who had captained the Dutch national team before. I think back in 2019, when I sat in Lyon and heard Wigmann talking about a final between two league leaders, it was time for the women to bet higher and harder, to take leadership positions, and to show that they can push football forward. .
Now Sarina Wiegman has taken over England, one step further.
Unstoppable Primordial Force
England is leading the commercial development, big clubs have jumped on the bandwagon, multinational billionaires have decided to build a star cult around the biggest players, Sweden has a very sympathetic and strong team again, the audience is curious and reactive and matches are broadcast on TV channels across the continent, under professional and serious guard By the great media dragons.
It is the manifestation of a success story that is gaining momentum, a primal force that cannot be stopped. It is a tournament that will be played at a higher level than ever before.
Have we finished the comparison with men’s football now?
I really do hope.
We’ll see a lot of great football next month, with a generation of players starting to get used to completely different opportunities than anyone before. I also understand that most of them want to rest for now, just play football, just enjoy the party. In some damn time, shouldn’t you be able to avoid being part of a community-oriented political movement and just focus on the cute two-legged dribbling?
definitely. But the fact that women’s football as a phenomenon cannot be overlooked is at a crossroads.
Sad if they imitate men’s football
Money started pouring in through television deals, audience figures, and sponsors. Singles players are becoming stars in a way we’ve never seen before in Europe. Women’s soccer will grow, develop and capture market share, and there is no alternative.
For 130 years, women have wanted the same opportunities as men.
The time it takes is what they want to do with the opportunities when they get it.
It would be sad if they would go here to copy men’s football which has long been lost in isolation and perversion, in neoliberalism and excessive commerce. In recent years, I’ve read many interesting thought texts from writers who worry that women’s football will pay, in Kent’s Swedish language, the price of being classified as elite – that is, it will be like the others.
What does men’s football have that women’s football lacks? This question has been a fuel throughout modern history.
Today when a unique tournament begins I hope he does not forget the following question:
What does women’s football have that men’s football lacks?
as much as you want.
It is more progressive, conscious and societal. It has shorter distances for supporters and media. It has a different runway culture. It is free of toxic masculinity. She is married to the struggle for minorities. She has very positive role models. When David Beckham is Qatar’s ambassador, he fails to craft two sentences to explain why – when Nadia Nadim is pressed to answer the same, she can explain and explain the problem.
I am terrified that this, all of this, will sink into the same destructive structures that men’s football has created.
It was exciting to see Aslani and Ericsson get away
Men’s giants started and invested in women’s teams, which is fine, but what happens when they imitate men’s anti-democratic structures (the four women’s clubs in England that represent the professional clubs all come from the men’s clubs behind last year’s Superliga project)? What happens when those who rule and decide at the association, federation and league level come from men’s football, when they are powerful people who have long since stopped seeing the values in football other than the levers and growth? What happens when a budding pro movement begins to echo the perversions on the man’s side?
It’s been interesting to hear about great models like Magdalena Ericsson and Kosovar Aslani in recent months, when it comes to sports laundry or media politics, because they just show the kind of new issues, that women’s football has escaped before.
It’s time to rest, like I said, it’s easy to go wrong.
But tonight a one-of-a-kind tournament will kick off, and I’m thinking of Sarina Wiegman. She was right that women should take responsibility, that women should hold important positions, and have the opportunity to build on limitless sport.
Don’t let it be like the others. Let it be something else, something better.
And let the party begin, it will be bigger than anything we’ve seen before.
