Our Colombian soccer women enter a critical point; one that is getting deeper and deeper. A wound that begins to dig internally and that little by little bleeds our women’s tournament. A constant flow that instead of being solved, is showing the lack of intervention, relevance and importance that they give to a profession that has become one of the most unstable in the country, being part of one of the largest businesses in the world. world level.
The irony of being part of a world full of millions and power at a global level shows that business is often above sports development. A focus that was lost years ago in the beautiful game. We filled the pockets of the protagonists and they have been losing the magic, the talent that we fell in love with the ball so much. Still, through thick and thin, our women have been climbing from their younger ages. Training in all-male schools, adapting his football and his passion to the neighborhood field and joining forces to create spaces that serve to enhance his talent, project his work and establish a dignified future for new generations.
Nowadays it is impossible to think that in Colombia a woman can make a living from soccer and although it opens another positive path that is external academic preparation, this means that our women have to redouble their efforts, having a second job, taking care of personal ventures, which in the end, all they do is overload them and many make them quit; even having the necessary talent to grow.
The private company cannot be so ‘blind’ and not see what happens. Because on paper everyone speaks badly of women’s football, but when we started to climb in continental tournaments, to shine with our Colombian National Team and to achieve goals that for many of the so-called ‘fans’ of football were impossible, there if everyone wants to ride to the ship of happiness and victory. A happiness that is temporary, because once our players get home, hang the medal in their room and wipe their faces, they have to continue with their other tasks. Our stars, forced to resign or exploit due to the lack of conditions of the soccer authorities of this country.
As the years go by, each tournament is shorter, with the excuse that there is no money and that the current situation is not the best, but it is that women’s football has been in a pandemic since its first professional league and this has been demonstrated with the A verse from the top leaders who do not find a sustainable reason to say that they ‘don’t care’ as much as the male. That ‘the business is not so profitable’.
For anyone it is impossible to stay in a working year with a 2-3 month contract, sometimes 4 or 5 that allow to save a few more pesos, but what the rest of the year? The directors of the clubs make unexpected economic efforts, many of them with their hands in their pockets to be able to give our players the life they deserve, but the lack of management comes from higher up. From where they say there is no money for a women’s league, but to put out the fires caused by personal and specific mistakes that have nothing to do with football.
But there are more flaws than certainties in this logic, a logic that is basic because if the tournament were longer, the contracts would in turn have a decent duration, not only for players, for coaches, doctors, physical trainers, logistics, cleaning. A League that is a serious and durable product where the big brands have a prudent space and time to be able to show their brands and sell their products. But in a month and a half, nobody can sell, play, grow or develop anything.
From the sporting point of view, the coaching staffs do magic in a short time and only the clubs that have good resources can do longer preseason. Without excuses, without problems and with a smile on their faces, our women go out to the field to put their breasts for the colors they are defending and with the dream of ever wearing the colors of the Colombian National Team.
And this is not about moral victories, in less than 5 years we achieved our first Copa Libertadores in 2018 with the great Atlético Huila team led by Albeiro Erazo and which filled each of the people who work and live in women’s football with happiness. our country. A football full of talent but with the absence of management and most importantly. No love from the ‘tesos’ above.
Our women need a Sustainable Women’s League, a league that begins to enter the internal part, because from the outside, we are considered the second country in South America only with Brazil above. The players from historical countries such as Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, want to come and play the women’s tournament in our country because of all the talent and demand of our local players, so they can put them to play on the field of a university, the they will break everything. (Something that has already been proven).
No more excuses, no more regrets, no more ‘buts’, no more! Our football is bleeding to death and our women would rather migrate than play here. It is time to hit the table and understand what our women’s football represents worldwide. It is not a coincidence that our main figures play in the major leagues of the world and that those who are here are waiting their turn for ‘a month and a half’ to be able to demonstrate what they are made of.
Either we stop the wound, or women’s football dies and with it all the illusions and the future of many of our women who with talent, conditions, preparation and work have everything to shine and we cannot because of the lack of a strong hand from above that begins to really care and not give contentment to the unwary who do not know the real context and who sell the existence of this league as good news.