She hopes to be heard.
Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir, Icelandic player for Olympique Lyonnais, denounced the choice of stadiums that will host the Women's Euro in England from July 6 to 31.
Two matches of the Icelandic national team have been scheduled at Manchester City Academy Stadium, City's training center, which has a capacity of only 7,000 places (4,700 seats, according to the UEFA website ).
Iceland will face Belgium on July 10 and Italy on July 14.
“I am disappointed with the stadiums that have been allocated.
It's shocking - we're playing a tournament in England, with huge stadiums, and we have to play in a training center which hosts some 4,000 spectators.
It's just embarrassing, and it's not the respect we deserve,” commented Sara Gunnarsdottir.
According to the midfielder, this kind of choice of international or continental bodies does not help the development of women's football.
“They didn't prepare for the fact that we could sell more than 4,000 tickets, which is disrespectful to women's football.
Women's football takes two steps forward, and then events like this take it one step back.
But matches are going to be played in bigger venues, which I'm sure will be full."
Matches will be held in particular at Old Trafford and its 73,200 seats...
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According to the Lyon player, these decisions will prevent many spectators from being able to travel to support their national team.
“I wonder if they follow women's football.
There could have been 20,000 spectators coming from Iceland to watch the matches.
But the members of our families have problems finding tickets, because everything was sold as soon as it was put online, ”said the international.
For her, it is not too late to give back to women's football the letters of nobility it deserves.
“They have to think about changing their choice,” she says.
Last November, Sara Gunnarsdottir became one of the first active players in French football to give birth to a child.
His Lyon team is first in D1 Arkema and qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League, for a 100% French poster against PSG.