“I tell you today, with all certainty and with all the seriousness of the case, that the Women’s League from next year will be for a whole year”. Ramón Jesurún’s words in mid-2022.
That last year’s could not be done, that it was too much of an economic effort, big, don’t worry, better times will come. His words, let it be clear:
In January 2023, when consulted by the newspaper El Colombiano, he passed the ball to Fernando Jaramillo, president of Dimayor, the one authorized to refer to the issue on behalf of the clubs.
And the apology came: “The international calendar does not help us, because we have the Women’s Soccer World Cup from July to August, and we are also hosting the Copa Libertadores in October. It must also be taken into account that there are 17 clubs that make an immense effort from the economic point of view, 8 of which are obliged to play this tournament to comply with the obligations of Conmebol. So, it is not easy to have a contract for 11 or 12 months when women’s football is not yet self-sustaining, we know that it is not ideal, we wanted to do it until September but due to the economic issue it was not possible, “he replied to the aforementioned newspaper.
Sometimes it was the money, other times the alleged lack of audience that was soon distorted, now it is the calendar. Or not? The president of Nacional, Mauricio Navarro, said that it was Dimayor that gave the promised tournament a thumbs down: “we made a proposal in which we asked that the qualifying phase be played until June and that after the World Cup and Copa Libertadores the so that it would end in September, but they did not consider it, it was defeated by a vote in the assembly”.
So, it doesn’t seem to be a matter of time either. Or living wages, or sponsors. Not even the situation of a Copa Libertadores in Colombia served to have the promised tournament. In the current one, the players who do not go to the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand or the Copa Libertadores, which are dozens, will compete for four months and will have 8 months without activity.
And to think that the results would now be indisputable, that they would force that dignified Women’s League that has been expected for years, that at the time of victories it is the same ones who throw promises to the wind who appear on the front page… in end, the lack of word.
