Women’s soccer gets another big boost with record-smashing crowd in Italy Globe_Sports
Juventus' goalkeeper Laura Giuliani, front left, a mascot and teammates celebrate after the game on Sunday.The setting was a major European soccer stadium, the actors on the grassy stage were playing themselves, and the scene was an Italian league women’s match – one like never before.
It was the first time the Juventus women played at the same stadium that the men’s team calls home, and tickets were free. But besides the huge crowd, one of the biggest ever for a European club match, it also drew more than 1 million unique viewers on television – nearly double the previous record for a women’s soccer game on Sky in Italy.
The Juventus players will surely notice a drop in adrenaline when they play their next home match against Tavagnacco on April 13. That game will be played club’s training centre in Vinovo, which has a capacity of only 500.That is among the lowest in the league, but no women’s Serie A team plays in a stadium with a capacity of more than 4,000.
In the United States, the women’s national team filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation over equal treatment and pay. The players said they were subjected to “institutionalized gender discrimination” that includes unequal pay with their counterparts on the men’s national team.
Italy is a different story altogether, however, because women’s teams are classified as amateur. But the growth still has been impressive to many. Sofie Pedersen, who scored the lone goal against Fiorentina, was already impressed with the positive attitude in Italy even before the match started.
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