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Same passion, but who sees it?

The desperate struggle of women's sports

Megan Rafino's fight and the campaign led by Marco Asensio in favor of women's football mentioned the built - in discrimination, distorted perception and simple fact: a few more years we will look back, and we will not believe that only men's sports were broadcast here.

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• Women's soccer

• Marco Asensio

Paz Hasdai

Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10:00 p.m.

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This week she made headlines again because she received a response from Drymond Green: he told her she "must stop complaining."

Rapino (Photo: GettyImages)

Smoking was once allowed on airplanes.

You would be asked which seat you want, regular or smokers.

The three back rows on the plane were meant for that.

During the flight there was a parade to the back, shrouded in smoke, people would stand there in the aisle and smoke for their enjoyment in the small, suffocated space.

In the armrest between the seats was the ashtray.

It was completely natural.

When the ban was first lifted, people freaked out.

Natan Zehavi wrote an incendiary column in the newspaper.

"How do we spend five hours imprisoned on a plane without lighting a cigarette? It's a lack of consideration, contempt for an entire public, you've gone completely crazy, a bunch of purists.

Sometimes life is a chapter in "Meter Man."

You look back in amazement at social norms that were common, and do not understand how it went.

Shy, embarrassed, amused.

Things that were standard, are today inconceivable.

"Who thought of that at the time?", The elders used to say.

Dark opinions were public opinion, racism, chauvinism, homophobia, really believed it was right to hit children.

The years go by, things change, the culture progresses.

A few more years we will look back, remember that once upon a time in the sports channels there were only men's competitions, and it is hard to believe that this really happened.

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Looking at the past with embarrassment, with a smile, with shame.

"Meter Man" (Photo: AMC)

Yes, today it is completely normal.

They open a sports channel, from 49 to 60 and something, and they are all men.

Leagues from all over the world, of men.

Dozens of football games, by men.

Dozens of men's basketball games.

European leagues, youth, South America, NBA, football, baseball, no matter what or where or what industry - all males, boys, boys, men.

Occasionally there is equality in tennis tournaments.

Judo competitions are also broadcast in Israel.

Here and there gymnastics competitions.

But these are really marginal and negligible percentages given the fact that women are half of the world.

Try to think about your knowledge as sports fans.

The average football fan knows hundreds of players, dozens of teams, knows how to distinguish between different leagues, knows the tradition of Everton and that of Sociedad, knows coaches and stadiums and history.

Footballers, however, he knows three or four.

From the entire history of the game.

In basketball the same thing.

A basketball fan knows how to memorize entire rosters of NBA teams.

Some even know Euroleague teams.

How many actresses do you know?

Does that make sense to you?

Like smoking in the back row of a plane.

An industry that has produced rich stars, thanks to equality and tradition.

Tennis (Photo: AP)

As mentioned, the most egalitarian industry is tennis, it is the one that has produced the most well-known, most successful and richest women in world sports, and the reason is simple: the women's tournament is held in parallel with men, integrated into it, and is a natural part of it.

A matter of habit and tradition.

Although they claim discrimination in placement on the main field, the discussion still occasionally arises when men revolt against equal winning prizes (how dare they, they do not deserve it, etc.), but only in this way can it work.

In equality.

When you broadcast them, show them, expose them, when they are half and half.

The same thing will happen at the Olympics.

The prize is the same prize, the competition is the same competition, the same framework, the same channel, the same screen, competitions are combined with each other, medal is medal.

Uri Sasson is no more beloved than Jordan Jerby.

High jump in women is no less interesting than in men.

Swimming, gymnastics, athletics, water jumping, all half and half.

Thus the Olympic Games produce beloved and eternal athletes, national heroines.

When there is equality.

This medal is a medal, its protagonist is also a hero.

Olympic Games (Photo: Yossi Tzipkis)

Recently, footballers around the world have been fighting for an equal distribution of funds from the state and local associations.

In the US it's particularly noticeable. The women's team wins World Cups and Olympic gold medals, but the men get bigger budgets. Megan Rapino leads the move and the protest, because she's the most famous, because she's the only one known, because she's a cool colored lesbian, because she's confronted With Donald Trump. This is how things work. This week she made headlines again because she received a response from Raymond Green: he told her she "must stop complaining."

Equal distribution of budgets is a problematic issue. In Israel, for example, it seems puzzling that women's football is of minimal interest. Of men, will receive the same money as of popular and beloved and dear men's soccer.But another 50 years, when we read archival news about the division of funds between the sexes, it will sound awkward and puzzling, inconceivable.It is doubtful that women's soccer will ever be as popular as men's or succeed in rolling Half of the sums in it. But money from the state? From the official institutions? How is it possible that they have to fight for something so elementary.

A reminder that sports enthusiasts are not just looking for the highest level.

Asensio (Photo: Official Website, Twitter)

Oda and Abush, it's hard for me to watch women's basketball.

But it seems to be an issue that gets worse over the years.

The less it is shown, the more commercial the channels become, the lower the interest.

It may be just me, but there used to be more famous basketball players.

Aluma Goren, Anat Draigur, Orly Grossman, the names were more common.

Maybe because the games were broadcast on Channel 1. Today no one knows anyone anymore.

They are hidden, not broadcast, not surveyed, the gaps are just immortalized.

Women's football is also a problematic industry.

I personally am only interested when there is a World Cup, but once it did not interest me at all.

Israel's women's team makes headlines only when it suffers a humiliating defeat.

For that to change you need recognition, budgets, affirmative action, even in broadcasts.

That's exactly why Marco Asensio's campaign this week (unintentionally) was important, beautiful, effective, because when he praises and promotes "the same passion" he dismisses the claim that sports fans watch male sports just because they want to watch the sport at its peak, at its best, in the maximum version His, at the highest level.

As if they do not sometimes watch lower league games, and enjoy the unique charm.

As if the matter is not connection, identification, emotion, tradition.

And for proof, there are a large number of people here who watch Israeli football.

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