It is behind the statements by the Spanish women’s soccer players that provoked a revolution in the Federation with the promotion of a global movement against machismo, as well as the strike of the players to unblock the negotiations for the increase in their minimum wage in the collective agreement with the Liga F. Amanda Gutiérrez (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1991) presides over Futpro, a union formed only by female footballers and intended exclusively for them. Her main workhorses are that interest in football played by women continues to grow and that they can truly dedicate themselves to being professionals.
–How has women’s football changed since you started in this?
–At a sporting level, much more than at an institutional and work level, where there is no strategy to grow. The evolution has been super positive with many successes: the number of girls who play has grown and also the interest of people; three Ballon d’Ors in the last three years, different tournaments in the national team’s lower categories, the Barça Champions League, the last World Cup… Now in management matters it is where there is a lack of work. The professional League is not truly professional. We continue with poor fields, threats of strikes and departures from sponsors like Finetwork, not to mention the embarrassing episode in Sydney. There are drowning clubs that are forced to cut back because they do not receive the money despite the agreements of the F League with DAZN (35 million), the commercial assets of the League (42) or the aid from the CSD (33).
–How much machismo have you endured?
–When we created Futpro, people were obsessed with seeing what man was behind the project. Thebes or Rubiales? Very patriarchal behavior. My players are ignored and have been denied subsidies for being in a single women’s union with no presence in men’s sports. And then, nobody listened to us until the World Cup. We had just had a very bad time with the Alhama ElPozo case (days ago the Football Federation confirmed the disqualification for two years of Juan Antonio García ‘Randri’, the club’s coach, for “derogatory and humiliating” behavior towards the players) and there no one did nothing.
-Players like Aitana Bonmatí complain about the lack of professionalism in the league. What is missing?
-First, a change in mentality and attitude of the leaders. It cannot be that we have more than 70 million euros in this league and the clubs barely get a million. When you ask about a strategic plan, it doesn’t exist; and when we ask about the requirements to be part of the competition, they tell us that any club can access it. And of course, if you don’t put up a barrier to entry, these things happen. There are clubs that do not pay salaries, others that do not even have their own locker room, or that to travel to a game they spend more than eight hours on the bus, play and return to their destination without rest; Not to mention some fields, which are ready to throw their hands up. A spectacle can be generated if the right conditions are met, but if more restrictions are established when displaying the product, such as putting paid competition on the platforms, which in terms of the conditions of the game, is not typical of a league that wants to be the best.
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-The F League has a minimum salary of 21,000 euros this season and it will rise in three years to 23,500 euros. What aspects of the agreement do you want to improve?
-The five unions made a proposal of 25,000 for this season and League F did not want to raise the minimum salary, which was 16,000, with the possibility of lowering it to 12,000. It was insulting. We continue negotiating different points. Today no club has the possibility of beating Barça, and this requires a strong investment of resources, which is what the footballers demand with priority. In addition to more regulation on maternity issues, such as physical trainers with a gender perspective to promote training during pregnancy and postpartum… This must be regulated as well as enabling breastfeeding areas, traveling with the baby, nurseries during training, etc. .
What do you think of the new Law approved in December?
-There are important deficiencies such as when the World Cup final occurred and the CSD filed a complaint with the TAD, with which Rubiales could not be disqualified because sexual harassment is defined in this rule but does not appear in the sanctioning regime as constituting very serious penalty. It was one of the amendments we made in this regard. FIFA acted first and the country was portrayed as not being able to protect Jenni Hermoso.
-How was it helping her?
-It was and continues to be hard because of the media. The statement we made in Futpro with more than 80 footballers had a lot of impact around the world, amplified with the #SeAcabó that Alexia launched on the networks. What we have done is continue with a very important union between them and advise them on the strategies to follow. It was complicated. We have had to reinforce our security because we have received hacking attempts and we have also received a lot of criticism with various inventions such as that we received money from the Government or that we bothered Jenni to make her report. The patriarchy still does not understand that what happened was wrong.
What has been learned from the ’15’ crisis to understand their demands?
-Union make force. The players know that the institutions, all of them, play to divide them, especially the most sexist ones. With fear we act with more mistakes, and they have coordinated and advised themselves well, with a clear discourse and under the same ideas fed up with the lack of resources and differences with their male counterparts. Standing up and raising your voice has had its progress.
2024-01-03 10:49:42
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