The Afghan striker Nadim equalized in the second half after Inter’s lead was sealed by the Italian Bartoli. Empty facility, with only 2,400 paying passengers
Nadia Nadim She has done everything in life: she escaped from Afghanistan with her family, learned nine languages, studied reconstructive surgery and worked in the hospital in the free moments granted by her career as a footballer. However, a goal at San Siro is special for her too. Nadim scored the 1-1 in the women’s derby played at the Meazza and the news is here, not in the score: the third women’s match ever in the most important stadium in Italy, after an Italy-Scotland in the seventies and a Milan- Juve in the Covid era.
san siro effect
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Covid came back into our thoughts a bit during the match. The 2,400 paying guests left San Siro largely empty, with a curious echo effect already experienced during the pandemic. In the orange sector, there is a mini-Inter curve of three rows with a banner and, on the other side, a red and black flag which was then lowered. In the stands, for Milan the CEO Giorgio Furlani, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, senior advisor of the owners, and Elisabet Spina, the head of the women’s sector who came up with the San Siro idea; for Inter, the women’s managers but not president Marotta.
do it again in advance!
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In any case, the message remains: letting girls play at San Siro is good and right, certainly not always but on special occasions, planned in advance, with ad hoc campaigns. More spectators would make everything much better. In 2019, Juventus brought the match against Fiorentina to the Allianz and the public responded greatly: 39,000 spectators and sold out. Barça sold 80,000 tickets for a women’s Champions League Clasico at Camp Nou in 2022. This time everything was done on an emergency basis in the last two days, after having ascertained the unavailability of other facilities, and Milan is satisfied with the response: the spectators are a thousand more than those of the previous match, which also had free entry. This time, 5 euro tickets.
the match and the shirts
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The match ended 1-1, with goals from Elisa Bartoli at the end of the first half for Inter and, indeed, Nadia Nadim at the beginning of the second for Milan. At the last minute, save by Swaby following a shot at an (almost) empty goal by Inter player Merlo. Best on the pitch, the goalkeepers. Cecilia Runarsdottir, Icelander from Inter in 2003, made at least three applause saves, from Renzetti, Ijeh and Nadim. Laura Giuliani, Milan’s captain, canceled out Detruyer’s right-footed shot with a quarter of an hour to go. Overall, Suzanne Bakker’s Milan, the only coach in the championship, on the sidelines with an Off White Fonseca jacket was better: the Rossonere dominated the first half, in which they conceded goals in Inter’s only counterattack, and if I played it evenly in the second. Ah, the Rossoneri shirt for the 125th anniversary is beautiful, but this was also clear from the photos taken. The Milan men will use it in the coming weekends, the girls have anticipated here at San Siro. Elegance.
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