A year of waiting. More than thirteen months with a broken promise. Thirty-three years of seeing how men have their Futsal World Cup and women don’t. Through a commercial, footballers from all over the world gathered in the Women’s Futsal Players Association (AJFSF) require the FIFA a hearing and a complaint “public abuse and neglect” of the organization that governs football and which, while speaking of gender equality, ignores the need for a World Cup for this specialty.
The global movement began to take shape on September 17, 2021, following the announcement of FIFA drums and cymbals than in lithuania referees María Estefanía Pinto and Valeria Palma had become the first women to direct a Futsal World Cup matchleading Spain-Japan in the ninth edition of the tournament for men’s national teams.
However, that step towards gender equality has not yet been taken in the women’s specialty, where futsal players are still waiting for their World Cup. This November 2nd, through two videos, The AJFSF has resurrected its struggle, because nothing has changed.
With nine players from different national teams, among them the Argentine Julia Dupuyaround, Natalia Orive, president of the association, said: “In September 2021 we turned to FIFA for the mistreatment and public abandonment of futsal players. A year later, we still have no official answers.”
“As men’s futsal prepares for its tenth World Cup, FIFA has yet to organize our first edition. We meet for the first time in history to publicly denounce discriminatory treatment. We urgently request an official meeting with the highest authority. We need a real compromise once and for all. Gender equality is not achieved with empty promises. If they didn’t want to hear us before, now they’ll have to see us, “he added in a video simulating a press conference.
In the other, meanwhile, it was decided to take a historic tour, which begins with the first edition of the Men’s World Cup, way back in 1989and with the main players.
There Dupuy, the Japanese Chikage Kichibayashi, the Brazilian Amandinha, the Uruguayan Fátima Villar, the Spanish Anita Luján, the Dutch Nancy Loth, the Portuguese Janice da Silva, the Italian Ersilia D’Incecco from Italy, the Iranian Zahra Lotfabadi and Ukrainian Vika Kyslova reflected this “year after year” he is “promised a World Cup” that does not arrive
“Equality cannot be a promise, nor can it have a World Cup”expressed who belongs to a group that was born after some defaults from club to players of the Spanish league and which includes more than 400 players of different nationalities, who now claim to train but without “being able to play”.
In dialogue with Clarín, Orive said a year ago: “They want football to be the most practiced sport in the world and they have created a plan, they are putting themselves on the line, but they are forgetting us. We don’t seem to be women either. In women’s football we are not included and in futsal we are excluded. So where are we? What are we? Aliens?“. FIFA, apparently, continues to regard them as such.
Source: Clarin
