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The attraction of a good deed: Female footballer is honored by Bono in a U2 song after playing a spectacular match on the Kilimanjaro Kicking at an elevation of almost 6000 meters: A very special kind of exhilaration. A legal high that – in the truest sense of the word – can only be topped by very few other experiences. I.e. a concert by a band that is worshiped by its fans with a cult of reverence: U2. Time and time again, Bono, The Edge & Co., manage to convey a sense of pleasure with groove and goosebumps in a holistic experience. What do pinnacle Football and U2 have in common? More than anyone thinks. It involves women: On June 24th, 2017, approximately 30 female players from 24 countries made history and set a record by playing a football match on the Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. On this mountain, neither stadiums nor streets have a name. The game and the underlying ‘Equal Playing Field’ initiative potentially caught the attention of the Irish rock stars. Either way: The match – more precisely, the player Josefina Martorell – was actually mentioned by U2 in a song, which the band performed […]
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You can’t. Two words women and girls have heard for centuries. One night Laura sat on the couch and was frustrated. Frustrated about her current situation, working in the corporate world, but also frustrated about the existing injustice in women’s football. She was angry that she saw more stories about horses then women in the sports pages. She was annoyed that women who play professional football do not get the same pay as their male team mates. She saw far less opportunities for girls and women to play sport and fewer role models to look up to. She wanted to change the conversation and wanted to create an equal field. Because she hopes that in thirty years time, this whole topic won’t even be a conversation at all. The co-founder of the Equal Playing Field initiative said: “The playing field is not equal. We wanted to use the climb of Kilimanjaro to highlight the gender inequalities faced today by women in sport. Women have fewer opportunities to play sport, get paid less when they do, and don’t get the same coverage or respect in the media. I don’t want to be having this same discussion with my future children.” Laura has […]
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La nuestra futbol femenino
Juli was nine when she escaped the violence perpetrated by drug cartels. Her physicist father pursued his PhD at Sweden’s Uppsala University while her anthropologist mother worked on her master’s thesis.
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