Interview with Ludovica Mantovani: “Women’s movement on the rise”

The president of the women’s division of the Italian football federation: “We need to root women’s football in Italian society, we need to work on the school system. Big steps forward compared to the past”

by our correspondent Alessandra Bocci

July 17
– Clayton le Moors (England)

The tricolor flag flies over the hotel, an old English residence. It is here that Italy has been preparing since July 4th and it is here that it has tried to absorb disappointments and regain energy. You need the right attitude to attempt the lunge with Belgium after an uphill start and somehow conquer the European quarter-finals that were the initial objective. But Ludovica Mantovani, president of the women’s division of the Italian football federation, does not break down. “I tell the girls to go out and be guided by themselves. They do not need further pressure, they are very sorry for the turn this European has taken ”.

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