2023-07-17 06:00:39
My mother always liked going to soccer, with my father and with another couple, that of her closest friends. The four of them, Valencia CF season ticket holders for decades, stayed every game day. They always started with a snack-dinner before entering Mestalla. Afterwards they enjoyed the match and never left the stadium before the referee whistled the end and the players said goodbye in the center of the field. Sometimes my mother stayed at home, when the team was at stake for something important, because she suffered too much.
A woman who is currently 80 years old who likes soccer and who understands a sport considered a man’s thing? Yes, so much so that she instilled in us her love for her children -three of them women- and grandchildren -two women-. She with all of her has gone to the stadium and we have all been season ticket holders at some point in our lives.
Today the family continues to suffer with the Valencia of our land, although football is already more television meat than Mestalla. The one we like is no longer played only by men, but also by women. It’s not women’s soccer, it’s soccer, without last names.
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As of Thursday we will closely follow the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which will have the participation of 732 women from 32 teams. Despite the fact that only four out of ten consider themselves professionals, this edition will be the first in which FIFA will pay them to participate: 28,000 euros for each of those who are part of the group stage. The figure will grow to 250,000 euros that the champions will receive. In total there will be about 110 million in prizes, as Laia Bonals has explained.
The payment of these bonuses, which is light years away from what the men who played in Qatar (some 440 million) received, is insufficient and there is still a lot to fight for. But it is a measure in the right direction towards the essential professionalization of football played by women, the one that we like so much at the Martínez house, as Aitana Bonmatí defends it.
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