Ballon d’Or winner upbeat over new agreement with Spanish FAFederation has sacked secretary-general and pledged reform
Decades of “systematic discrimination” have long forced the country’s female players to shoulder more than football, the Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas said as she and her fellow World Cup winner Irene Paredes for the first time directly addressed the month-long crisis that has engulfed Spanish football.
“We had to fight very hard to be heard, which comes with wear and tear that we don’t want,” Putellas told reporters on Thursday on the eve of their Nations League match against Sweden. “For many decades – too many – we detected that there was systemic discrimination against women’s football.”
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