What is women's football "fighting" for?

The 2023 Women's World Cup is considered a great festival of women's football in the world. However, the word "festival" is not only about good matches, beautiful goals, and earthquakes created by the lower-ranked teams, but it is also a miniature world society, where there are very hot issues of humanity, typically the fight against gender prejudice and inequality for some girls pursuing the king sport .

Striker Alex Morgan (USA) always demands legitimate rights for women's football.

If you pay close attention, you will see that many American women's players did not sing the national anthem in the two matches against Vietnam and the Netherlands. This is part of the struggle of American women to increase their income, even equal to their male counterparts, when the American women's soccer team has brought home 4 World Cup championships and many other titles. This battle has been going on for many years and has not ended because both sides have not found a common voice.

Even striker Alex Morgan, mother of a 3-year-old daughter, once asked the US Soccer Association to have separate rooms for female players with young children during training and matches, create conditions for nannies to take care of their children so that they can play with peace of mind, and at the same time be paid in full during maternity leave. That is the "legacy" that the current US female soccer stars have created. They have become pioneers in strongly supporting gender equality, bravely publicly announcing their homosexuality... From there, creating a wave of support for other colleagues around the world to fight together.

And then when Asisat Oshola scored against Australia, sealing a dramatic 3-2 comeback for Nigeria, she took off her shirt not only to celebrate her team's victory, but also to re-enact a message of equality. The message of taking off her shirt to celebrate was initiated by former US player Brandi Chastain at the 1999 Women's World Cup - 24 years later, although society has made progress, the fight for equality is still not over.

These are stories of great magnitude, about the huge question mark of all humanity. The 2023 Women's World Cup also has the mission of spreading other everyday stories that female players always want the world to see. At the age of 15 with many dreams and ambitions, Linda Caicedo was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The severe pain of each radiation treatment once made this Colombian female player think that she would never play football at the top level again.

But Caicedo is not afraid of the darkness, because if she continues to keep negativity around, the disease will only get worse. With extraordinary determination and a desire to return to football, Caicedo has regained her life from the "doors" of death. This personality is shown on the football field, she is a player who is always full of energy, enthusiasm, has a progressive spirit and thinks about positive things.

Khadija Shaw grew up in a poor family in Jamaica, with a shoemaker father and a farmer mother. The youngest of 13 children, the young player often sneaked out to play football after her parents went to work and returned before they got home. Then one day, when he discovered his daughter playing football, his father chased Shaw from the football field to the house. For her parents, women's football did not make much money. Growing up from the beatings from her father, Shaw overcame all barriers to become one of the top strikers in the Premier League. At the same time, the female player of Manchester City also holds the record for most goals scored in history for the national team with 56 goals.

The rise of Caicedo, Shaw... has become an inspirational story for the football world about overcoming adversity and conquering illness. Each girl who plays football has her own story, you have to really pay close attention and sympathize with the character to clearly feel how extraordinary their will to rise is.

( According to thethao.sggp.org.vn)

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