Lto Women’s Rome is the Italian Champion for the first time in history. The players led by coach Alessandro Spugna beat Fiorentina, winning the championship three days in advance. A success due to determination of the athletes and to the two goals from Greggi and Bartoli.
Women’s football takes everything: Rome is the Italian Champion
And a deserved success considering that the team shined throughout the seasonalso ousting Juventus, undisputed winners for 5 years in a row.
And not only that, because the match played at the Stadio Tre Fontane recorded a real sold out, with 2767 spectators.
The two Roma players Elisa Bartoli and Lucia Di Guglielmo celebrate their team’s Scudetto. (Getty Images)
Is women’s football really not for women?
The tension of the players was great during the match which ended, however, with an explosion of joy and enthusiasm afterwards the Scudetto goal by Elisa Bartoli captain of the team since the Women’s team was founded and who will be able to celebrate the Scudetto with his favorite team become the flagship of Italian women’s football.
In short, it is increasingly being denied the phrase that «Football is not for women». In fact, it seems quite the opposite. The women’s teams are proving to be strong and successful. But not only that, because the audience is also increasing significantly.
Increase the audience in the stands
There match between Rome and Barcelonavalid for the quarter-finals of the Champions League, was an event with its 39,454 spectators in the stands who they set a new attendance record for a women’s match in Italy.
That said, the fact remains that in Italy, women’s football does not yet have full legitimacy. In various regions of Italy there is a lack of structures and the little visibility that is given to them it certainly does not allow companies to find sponsors who want to invest with medium and long-term projects.
A sport blocked by stereotypes
To all this then, as always, they add up cultural and social issues that place limits on football. The tendency to consider football a purely male sport is still rooted in the Italian social fabric.
For this it would be necessary to carry out awareness-raising policies in schools, where little girls approach the world of sport for the first timeand give everyone the opportunity to practice football without any prejudice or physical or psychological limitations.
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