Footballers, an album all for them! Finally after more than half a century (the first Panini album dedicated to the players went out in the 1961-62 season) in which we injar the faces of hundreds, perhaps thousands of players in the foreground, arrives the First paper collection of stickers dedicated to them: to footballers.
From 6 February, in fact, the new Panini collection reserved for the women’s footballa way to celebrate it – was now – and give it the right dignity, exactly when, instead, in the Budget Law 2025 the Government cuts the funds precisely to women’s footballnot renewing the three -year funding for the professional athletes.
On the one hand it is given and on the other it is removed, therefore, all surrounded by an evident setting of a rose on, almost purple.
Have you noticed, in fact, the writing and the edges of the footballers’ album? Made almost in order not to betray the perfect custom of wanting to think about rose As the only color that can represent the girls, still caged in the classic stereotype and in the idea that rose must necessarily have a component that should be associated only and exclusively to women (but, on the other hand, the players’ album has no edges Azzurri …).
In the 1980s, marketing imposed the rule that the reference color for women was pink, while for males blue, and so it has remained to date and it is seen: stuff that the feminist movements of the sixties and seventies would have strongly criticized.
According to the report published by the FIGC, the women’s football movement is growing strongly. Between 2008 and 2022, the members of the registered players have doubled, while in terms of fan base it is estimated that the fans are about 10 million.
A growth that seems to pass under theuding, if we consider that the Italian government has just given a cut to the funds intended for women’s sportnot renewing the three -year funding for the professional athletes.
In 2022 there was a real turning point for Italian women’s football, with the introduction of “professionalism”, but the recognition of rights and protections for players led to More costs for clubs (+60% compared to the previous year), not always rewarded by commercial revenues. Thus the cutting of funds to women’s sport could seriously compromise new job opportunities and professional dreams of many young athletes.
But we have an album of the stickers. A new brief pink stickers albums.
