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Passionate 16-year old Rosetta, Giovanna, for whom the team’s adventure is also a political gesture. Marta,determined to fight for the freedom to play. And courageous Zanetti who gives the kick-off, Strigaro who writes to the newspapers, Stubborn Lucchi who struggles to beat paternal opposition ... These are the friends who at the beginning of the Thirties gave life to the Milanese women's group , the first women's football team in Italy. But the Italy of the time was fascist and as the group expanded, became a real formation and began to be talked about in the newspapers, the regime went into alarm. Of course, these girls have given themselves shorter playing times and lighter rules, ensuring that they do not want to compromise their "primary function" as mothers. They take the field with socks and a black skirt so as not to offend morals. But they are still women and football is a sport for men. Not to mention the fact that Giuseppe, Giovanna's husband, gets into trouble with the political police. Federica Seneghini tells the story of friendship, play and struggle of these football pioneers like a novel, including exhilarating victories, humiliating setbacks, unexpected allies and irreducible enemies. Carefully reconstructed and accompanied by an essay by Marco Giani, which traces decades of female discrimination in the world of football, this compelling glimpse of our past is also a precious reflection on the injustices still dangerously alive in our present.
22 x 16 cms, softback, 256 pages.
2020
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