The Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, who is also responsible for sport, is campaigning for more attention to be paid to women’s football.
“Go there, look at the games. They are great and I’m sure you will be amazed,” said the SPD politician in Potsdam at the “RND on site” event series of the editorial network Germany.
Men’s soccer games are no more attractive than women’s, said Faeser when asked. “I find the women’s games just as attractive. The question is rather why word hasn’t gotten around so much.”
Faeser praised the “great performance” of the women’s national team at the European Championships. Now you have to actively promote that people also visit the games of the women’s Bundesliga. She herself wants to visit parties with her party colleague Bärbel Bas, the President of the Bundestag. “I’m definitely coming to Potsdam to Turbine,” announced Faeser. “And I will also go to Duisburg with Ms. Bas to watch a Bundesliga game.”
It is important to promote better pay in women’s football, said Faeser. It is true that many important positions are occupied by men at the German Football Association (DFB), although not all of them. “But I think that a lot has to change in society as a whole. I think it’s too easy to just say that the DFB has to do its homework. I think we all have to do our homework.” If more people attended women’s games, it would also be easier to demand changes from the DFB.
In the controversial decision against a penalty for the German women’s team in the final of the European Championships at London’s Wembley Stadium, Faeser said: “Yes, it was one. I was there. I could see it.” But you have to deal with it in a sporty way.