At the Sport Festival a meeting on the development of movement with Ludovica Mantovani, Beatrice Merlo of Inter and Francesca Brienza of La7
“The fleeting moment” is the title of the fourth edition of the Trento Sport Festival. “Our tomorrow is now” is the slogan of the FIGC development strategy for women’s football from now until 2025. A perfect harmony that animated the debate in the Sala Depero of the Palazzo della Provincia di Trento, guests on stage the president of the Division Women’s Soccer Ludovica Mantovani, Beatrice Merlo, defender of Inter and the national team, and Francesca Brienza, journalist and presenter of La7, who from this year and the next one, exclusively broadcasts one match per week of the women’s Serie A.
Great growth
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“It is a great opportunity for growth for the whole movement – said Mantovani – it is very important right now to continue to offer visibility to women’s football after it made itself known to the general public two years ago in the World Cup in France where we unexpectedly reached the quarter-finals “. “There is no doubt – confirmed Brienza, who leads the pre and post match with Antonio Cabrini, former head of the women’s national team -. I was amazed by the level of competitiveness and competitiveness of the matches. I come from the men and I must admit that the The Serie A matches that we broadcast in the free-to-air were thrilling. Just think of Roma-Juve two weeks ago. With the free-to-air broadcast, more people and more families can be reached. and they are more inclined to go to an all-female football school “. “I was lucky enough – the right-back of Inter Merlo admitted – I never suffered criticism or unpleasant attitudes when the first few times I played with the boys outside my brother’s training while I was waiting for him. But for many of my colleagues I didn’t. it was the same. “
The surprise
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The talk embraced various themes such as sustainability from the next Serie A season, which will see the debut of women’s professionalism. “It is a great challenge strongly desired by Federal President Gravina”, continued President Mantovani. “This year there will be three relegations to Serie B and only one promotion to Serie A in order to start with ten professional teams in the 2022-23 season. The competitiveness and – we hope – also the spectacularity of our championship will increase.” There has been talk of the new Champions, which will certainly help the Italians to bridge the gap with the big names in Europe (Juventus-Chelsea at the Allianz Stadium on Wednesday). And a lot of the national team that will participate in the European Championship next June and that gives a lot of space to young people like Merlo, born in 1999, who made his debut there last June. Finally, for her a very pleasant surprise with a video message from her new coach to Inter: “You will go a long way”. As surely as women’s football will do.
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