MADRID, 12 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE) has sent letters this week to Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, and Antonia Morillas, director of the Women’s Institute, to request a meeting with both with the aim of addressing the inclusion of the F League of permanently in the Quiniela, something that she considers “a matter of enormous importance for the development of the competition and of women’s football in general”.
As indicated this Wednesday in a statement, the union “does not give up in its efforts to vindicate a cause as just as it is necessary” for the matches of the professional women’s league to be included in the pool ticket, a “battle” that began in 2019 when launched the #QuinielasEnFemenino campaign.
In these letters, the association chaired by David Aganzo emphasizes that “it has been working for years” in pursuit of this objective and recalls that in 2020 the Culture and Sports Commission of the Congress of Deputies approved, after his request and “unanimously “, include the matches of the League F in the Quiniela.
“However, months later, the government’s response to the question formulated in writing by the Popular Parliamentary Group was surprisingly negative, something that AFE denounced in a statement,” lamented the union, which also insists on the “comparative grievance” that This means that Lotteries and State Gambling, “a public company, does not react and resist this change.”
AFE emphasizes that what these letters seek is to “give visibility to the competition, the much-needed economic return in women’s football and put an end to this unfair position of inequality”. It shows the barriers that must continue to be suffered in this society, even more so when the person responsible is a public company such as Lotteries and State Betting,” he added.
Finally, the association emphasizes in these letters that the visibility” of women’s football is being “limited”, which is also deprived of “much-needed financing channels”, for which it hopes that its definitive permanent presence in the tickets “will become a a reality, fulfilling the constitutional mandate of real and effective equality between men and women”.