Tessa Wullaert publishes book about women’s football

Women’s football attracted tens of thousands of supporters during the First World War, but was then banned until 1971 by the male bobo’s of the football system. The book tells about the difficult evolution of women’s football, including the difficult path that Tessa Wullaert had to walk, to the absolute top in Belgium and Europe.

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Tessa Wullaert is the figurehead of Belgian women’s football. She took her first football steps at Wakken, played abroad for five years, and is now very successful at Anderlecht. “So the perfect person to write a book about women’s football,” says journalist Pieter-Jan Calcoen from Koksijde, who co-wrote the book.

With the book, Wullaert wants to take women’s football a step higher, by inspiring more people, by gaining more support, also financially. Not only for the players themselves, but especially in the framework. “I do advocate a professional league, so wages have to go up a bit. But I don’t advocate equal pay at all, because I also understand that there is a difference,” says Tessa.

“It sometimes starts with the youth, that the women’s teams have to make way for the boys’ youth. That is a completely wrong upbringing. Then it already plays in their heads that they are more important than the women. And that is not allowed.”