Ganar es también una propuesta de la mente.

Mujer y Deporte, revolución femenina abanderando una ética que por escrito muestre que el sexismo, la xenofobia y el racismo que se refleja en los estadios, despachos federativos y prensa deportiva, forma parte de la discriminación y del malestar en la cultura del que nos habla Sigmund Freud.

El sufragio femenino ha sido garantizado y revocado, varias veces, en diferentes países del mundo. En muchos países el sufragio femenino se ha garantizado antes que el sufragio universal, de tal manera que una vez concedido éste, a mujeres y hombres de ciertas razas, aún se les seguía negando el derecho a votar.

En España legalmente no hay barreras para la práctica deportiva de las mujeres, ni para la formación de entrenadoras y directivas, a pesar de ello se constata menor porcentaje de participación en puestos de responsabilidad en las distintas instituciones y organizaciones, así como menor porcentaje de árbitros para la competición.

     Para aderezar el presente trabajo, traigamos de la realidad más cotidiana el llamado deporte rey, tal vez, desde que lo practican las mujeres.

Los orígenes del fútbol se le atribuyen a Inglaterra en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. La práctica del fútbol era cosa de hombres, viril, agresivo y por ello se consideraba inadecuado para las damas, incluso algunos médicos aseguraban que resultaba ser perjudicial para la estructura corporal de la mujer.

Allá por 1915 muchachas de catorce y quince años dejaban sus hogares para trabajar en la industria de las municiones. Europa se encontraba inmersa en la Gran Guerra y con el fin de cuidar a estas necesarias trabajadoras el Ministerio de Municiones dispuso la creación de una Sección de Salud y Asistencia Social para la recreación de estas jóvenes en las que se incluyó el deporte; el fútbol resultó ser uno de las elecciones preferidas por las muchachas para usar su tiempo libre.

Y así fueron aparecieron diferentes equipos femeninos especialmente en Gran Bretaña y Francia. Nadie pudo imaginar que en 1917 los equipos de fútbol femenino de dos fábricas de Preston, en Lancashire, se enfrentaran en un partido jugado en Navidad con una concurrencia de diez mil personas y una recaudación de seiscientas libras. (Continuará)

FROM THE BOOK; FOOTBALL AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

CHAPTER SIX

THE WOMAN REIGNES THE KING SPORT

Author: Dr. Carlos Fernández del Ganso

Translation: Esther Núñez Roma

Regarding the possible predisposition to suffer injuries with equal means, training and type of sport, there are no differences in both sexes, although a more specific assessment of these data cannot be issued due to the scarce existence of studies dedicated to woman sports injuries.

The scientific investigations show that is not possible to attribute unequally to the physic capacity, the masculine and feminine sporty competitively; another factor, another concepts are implicated in the discrimination which relapses on woman and also in sports as well.

One more curiosity that stresses this discrimination studied about the body of women, is when at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, the American runner Joan Benoit won the Gold Medal in the First Olympic Marathon in which women were allowed to participate. With a time of 2:24:52, her time would have won eleven of the twenty previous Olympic marathons just for men.

Winning is also a proposal of the mind.

Woman and Sport, a feminine revolution that is supporting an ethic that shows in writing that sexism, xenophobia and racism reflected in stadiums, federation offices and sports press, is part of the discrimination and discomfort in the culture that Sigmund Freud is speaking about.

Female suffrage has been guaranteed and revoked, several times, in different countries of the world. In many countries women's suffrage has been guaranteed before universal suffrage, so that once granted, for women and men of certain races, they were still denied the right to vote.

In Spain legally there are no barriers to the practice of sports for women, nor for the training of coaches and managers, despite this there is a lower percentage of participation in position of responsibility in the different institutions and organizations, as well as a lower percentage of referees for the competition.

To dress up the present work, let's bring the so-called "king sport" from everyday reality, perhaps, since women practice it.

The origins of football are attributed to England in the second half of the 19th century. The practice of football was manly, virile and aggressive, therefore considered inappropriate for the ladies, even some doctors claimed that it was harmful to the body structure of women.

There by 1915 girls of fourteen and fifteen years left their homes to work in the ammunition industry. Europe was immersed in the Great War and in order to care for these necessary workers, the Ministry of Munitions ordered the creation of a Section of Health and Social Assistance for the recreation of these young women in which sport was included; football turned out to be one of the preferred choices for girls to use their free time.

And that's how different female teams appeared, especially in Great Britain and France. No one could have imagined that in 1917 the women's football teams of two Preston factories in Lancashire would meet in a game played at Christmas with a crowd of ten thousand people and a collection of six hundred pounds. (To be continued)