discrimination inequality or part of everyday life. for many we ask why? because life is diversity. make up your own mind. ah d w made for minds we thought, oh oh, oh oh, oh fool stadium, madison versus around champions league. nothing out of the ordinary. you say, think twice. this is about a suff, any game f c barcelona as women's team. it was only a bit more than

a decade ago. but a stephanie were training at whatever pits was available and usually at ridiculous hours of the day. not any more. now they dominate in spain. what they think about, you know, she better we have scheduled in europe. they want the 2021 champions league. it's. it's special. it's exciting. and broke the world record for attendant to the women's game in march 2022. when i saw a summer yourself, but just a few years back, nobody seemed to care much about them. at the time the team and the league were nowhere near professionals got stuck in amateur mode and usually don't has time. what's happened here? but stephanie have only been a professional site since 2015 barcelona man team in the mean time seemed to have forgotten what made the club great?

the club claims. this is about more than empowerment, but what exactly is it then? i came here to spain to find out why if i stephanie has become such a powerhouse in such a short amount of time. that's a good question. i want to know the answer as well. well, barcelona spain, 2nd largest city isn't exactly a stranger to football, right? one of the local teams, fc barcelona, or one of the most famous clubs in the world at stadium come to know how was up to a 100000 people. europe's biggest football temple at the club museum. it's trophies galore. and you can hardly count how many stars have played here, including jesus. the women's team saga began in the seventy's. some pioneers got together though back then it was just

a hobby. deborah bard from officially joining f c bar salon. as was the case for most women players around the world, the football establishment rejected them. they had to accept being treated like total amateur. check out this referee society just wasn't ready. even less so in the spain of the late seventy's says, the man who wrote this book on by to suffer many movie the most can is by you have any am or the liable guy that i think delruda yagi almost throughout those. so if you're lucky going, we, my chiefs there, we, me sophie knock and in the younger football at us while i'm in the godaddy on british things only slowly started to change in the ninety's and it took until 2002 to make the women's side an official part of the club was that the shiny beginning of what we see today, like a logical development over the last 20 years. not at all. i do know that by the

bobo and b, one indicates that those mean those are those meaningful glue you got most a. why don't you send me the, the one fellow now? they don't know when they're not c, and let me ask you, few course didn't get her. no student was one of the palace e and the owners under the upload, obvious. but at the no campus con davis, s. d. c, plein us going to let us go, whether there will be like other mega clubs, but us ever not really interested in women's football. into 20 tenths. they decided to get serious about it with some immediate results. taking the women's game more serious, reflected a trend among big names and football men. city by n or p. s g made similar choices in 2012 but it's f. m n e one their 1st and the same in 201320142015. when they turn professional, tamara hunter is a us born football journalist to live in works in spain. for a long time, she focused on legal, male players,

growth iraq to teach for pasting. in recent years though, she witnessed, however, the births elona bought into the idea of serious women's team. they've built a really solid project with a great foundation. they've looked at the blueprint from the men side. they copied and pasted the dna of the club from the men's team to the women side. but assess dna were shaped by iconic figures like you on christ. and what the all and the 3 peeve possession, fresher and position. a system that has engine ration of opponents into despair. the women's team are doing the same powerful, dominant and leading the way. and this at a time and the men's team seem to have lost their way. ok, 2015. they won the champions league, but since then they've lost touch with the club, dna and identity leading to some embarrassing results.

while fc barcelona women's team flourished? they reached their 1st champions league semi final in 2017. so that by the stuff i mean it shows like many offered periods to use the financial power of its parent club to accelerate growth. we only have done it. chelsea has done it. man city has an english cor, but they have done it to i think we all know the situation that the club find itself in now financially, which is to say that they're up to here in debt, over a 1000000000 euros. they need to pay back from money that they've taken out and known, for example. so i don't think it's all about the money. i think that they really have looked inward and said grow players. let's develop players better stuff in the sporting directors, dresses. they were in keen on buying a superstar on some of them when we're starting to 1015, the project was not to invest

a lot of money to do the best savings in the world. we want them to develop the players to try to do a project of that. we feel proud those are glad to try to investing in by using the got me. what do the following players have in common? and yet, jerry became correct. they all were trained as marcia were just bought a football academy. oh, sorry, i forgotten missy. of course. i must see. i was just as much a part of fc barcelona d n a as the 3 p mentioned earlier. the youth academy has always been such a fundamental pillar for this club historically anyway, and i think now that they can do that on the women side of things to really is just what they're all about compared to maybe other clauses. still women have only been fully admitted in the residency since 2021. but since their 1st leak titled by feminine is the regional identity fielding,

many home grown players from catalonia to proud and independent minded region. barcelona as part of the 10 years on the 2022 squad has key katelyn players that happened at the club for quite some time. this team became a force to be reckoned with and reached the 2900 champions league final where they were trashed for one by the young, long the dominant force in european women's football about a se time hadn't come yet. but sometimes these are their moments when the big champions are born. chevy on this for the last part on us. what us from face? husky, uncle, mother, eunice, and douglas about it. i will talk about it. part of the though, if you don't know who i'm in the guy much into the us, you know stuff thing equal. yes, i'll get to you and got it up. and he then don't face it out and then asked him us into this sort of way. little dotted 3 spanish lead times. follow 202021225 the stuff in the one the champions league in 2021. except what

they as the, by the, on the all the same a year. all this has created one big bugs in barcelona, by the stuff in the, near to talk of the town. they captured the group that the man last at least until early 2022. and but i mean you are now splashing cash on accomplished players from abroad, like suite from natural food signed in 2021. she feels divided. well, i think the main reason is like the interest you, you see the people in the city they're really interested. they're following up. i think it's an interest and also the, the team has been so successful and the playing style, but it's interesting to watch. ok, let's be real stuff and we need don't always draw 90000. usually they play a study. are you on cro? if average attendance, 3000, and tv revenue is still a far cry from the man's game media prod, spain's leading sports management agencies based in barcelona it c e o also does.

the king of football says this about but so for many success external dna rental fee on a court on me, her a marietta neon laws, which was a ton of issue. and me in marketing or up all the seattle's. yeah. like you will see colors in, but she announced poorly. she thought he has not shown william port dot this niewiner settlers in maple, toyota ah, coastal blossom those passionate about butter. stephanie don't care though football writer, andrea sanchez travels 3 hours from valencia to see them play and see something in them that used to mark the man's t o. stay more young. untied about half him, and nina forget it. okay, i'm in the year analyst. speed the one with you. okay. your metal studies getting on a keyboard. he's already done what it is. you know they are whoever they did to get doc august 8th. and although individuals, dora said to the lexia,

what they are stand out as with the best bar society, it's always about the team is doesn't premium individual biddle. seen the listening, see the village people to peddle guillotine, days, se. but again, you're able to get us in the us, you can okay. them be in a lexi, go the alex you have with the yes. going to well on the order. another one, obviously rita. good lady. i you see a spine your la northern. yeah. he can okay. bobo, cork, back sees the in the ready. i spun. you'll, you'll have what was bad for feminist success has made women's football in catalonia popular 15000 players bets 10 percent of those registered in 2022 or women 5 years back. that number was still only around 10000 catalonia numbers are significantly higher than the rest of spain. one explanation role models are easier to identify now for young girls than in the past. title, awards, 90000 people in the stadium. well,

that helps freestyle or paloma has noticed a shift left me yesterday in reference. if you're on the way i love latin every style apnea, a list, but i won't get a sense of belief that he may have been sick. but i want to come up and get a set amount of mercy and get him to come up. and i look at him, i said come on my feet. are you in the are going to be. but if you could, i get my knees and put, get my seneca marlexia, and this is what a stephanie are doing, right? their identity makes the city vibrate. it's something their big european competitors don't have. quite other is to look to find the right narrative, the right team, the right spirit, but stephanie will keep on selling out, come, no more titles will come and the team will use this momentum to become even more unstoppable

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