Possession, position and pressing are three P’s mainly associated with Liverpool men, Spain’s 2010 World Cup-winning men’s team and countless others. Identity is essential for teams, and when FC Barcelona’s men’s team started to forget theirs, up stepped Femeni.
We all know the history. Women’s soccer was banned, and misogyny forced many women into playing soccer on random pitches at crazy times. It was the same in Spain. Spain was emerging from a dictatorship, and the view was primarily held that soccer was a men-only zone.
Eighteen-year-old Catalan amateur footballer Immaculada “Imma” Cabecerán Soler met with former FC Barcelona president Agustí Montal Costa to discuss forming a women’s team associated with the club. They knew it was possibly going to upset a lot of people, and the idea was crazy, but the id …
- May 19, 2022
