💙 Elena Linari's monologue during the Italian program "Le Iene"🥹:
"Since we were little we were taught that football is for boys. And that the females do dance or volleyball. Pink on one side and blue on the other. Yet in the world, women who played football there were already thousands.
Today I play in England, the most important championship in the world. And I'm wearing the jersey of Italy, the most beautiful country in the world. Now finally the music is changing everywhere. The women's movement has made giant strides, even if some have stopped at prehistory. "Go wash the dishes," they tell us again. "It's just a world of lesbians" someone else insinuates.
Trivially stereotypes, useless comments but unfortunately recurrent. I have broad shoulders. And I also slipped all the shit that came to me when I came out. But out there are women who are still afraid to take sides. Girls who suffer, girls who hope to grow up in a better world. We suffered, cried, fought because no one considered us. We were growing up but they didn't want to admit it. And in fact until 2022 they considered us amateurs.
Parents, if your daughter wants to play football, leave her free to dream and love whoever she wants, to run after a ball with a smile on her labs because it's the most beautiful thing. And if someone insists on telling you what you should do and who you should be, you put a pair of headphones in your ears, turn up the volume and follow your heart".
