Can the Gunnarsdottir controversy at OL advance the question of maternity in football?

“As a mother, I had no future at this club. The charge, Tuesday, January 17, of the footballer Sara Björk Gunnarsdottir against Olympique Lyonnais is an earthquake. Considered since the mid-2000s as one of the biggest women’s clubs in the world, with a pioneering president Aulas in this field, OL were ordered by the Fifa court in May 2022 to pay the player some 82 000 euros, for not having paid her all of her salary during her maternity leave.

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