Vol. 23 No. 242 (2018)

Why no women play in any team?  This was the awkward question about the World Cup. Whatever his skin color, height, ethnicity, social status, as long as he has been selected by the coach, no man is forbidden from integrating a team. Could not a woman represent her nation as decently as men do regardless of their condition? 

The answer to this question is very simple: it is expressly prohibited by the International Football Federation (FIFA). Women can only play among women, as in most sports created in the 19th century. Even though they have performed extraordinary sporting feats in disciplines such as rowing, shooting, swimming, mountaineering and others, even surpassing mens. Referring to those times that seem distant, Ivan Illich said: I do not know any industrial society where women are economically equal to men. I still consider at this point that everything that measures the economy, allows us to realize that those who receive less, are always women.

A woman is unfairly denied access to the highest sport awards even though she spends all the time and effort to acquire the necessary talent. Millions of women watched, screamed, suffered. Surely, if the prohibition did not exist, some would have played. Gianni Infantino: In order to make the world we live more just, we must update this regulation item. It would be necessary not to legitimize this anachronistic segregation.

Tulio Guterman, Manager - July 2018