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f. c. barcelona as women's team. it was only a bit more than a decade ago, but of that many were training at whatever pits was available and usually at ridiculous hours of the day. not any more. now they dominate in spain. think they think about dealership, but we have sag, you are in europe. they want the 2021 champions league kids special. it's exciting and broke the world record for attendance 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, we're in nowhere near professionals, stuck in amateur mode and usually don't have the cancer side. what's happened here? but stephanie have only been a professional side since 2015 barcelona manns team. in the meantime, seem 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 so feminine has become such a power health 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, se barcelona, or one of the most famous clubs in the world at stadium comp no holds 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, borrowed from officially joining fc parts alone, 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 the rhetoric society just wasn't ready. even less so in the spain of the late 70 says the man who wrote this book on by the stuff in the movie, then we're going to find you have any more reliable. got it. i think the vehicle once you start those. so if you're lucky, we might, we myself, you know, continue with it as well. i'm in the course of the many things only slowly started to change in the 90 and it took until 2002 to make the women side an official part of the club. was that the shiny beginning of what we need to do, like a logical development over the last 20 years? not at all. i do know that by the got more,

bobo and b one indicates that those mean those are those mckinsey l blue. you got most a. why don't you send me the, the fellow now? they don't know within their nazi and let me ask you few on a scale, of course, you know, start in the morning. the ballast e news was under the upload obvious. but at the end, no campus can diverse has these deeply not going to let us go, whether there will be like other mega clubs, but us ever not really interested in women's football. and the 2010th, they decided to get serious about it. with some immediate results, taking the women's game more serious, reflected a trend among big names in football man 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 or,

and pasting. in recent years though, she witnessed, however, the births elona bought into the idea of serious women's team. they built a really solid project with a great foundation. they 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 fingers, like you on chrome, and fed quite the all, and the 3 piece possession fresher and position a system that essentially a 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 man'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 brought us up. i mean, it shows like many of its peers to use the financial power of its parent club to accelerate growth. the only has done it. chelsea has done it. man city has an english core, 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, let's grow players. let's develop players, buy the stuff in the sporting the rector's dresses. they were all keen on buying a superstar on some of them when we started in 2015, the purchase was not doing best of money. i'm to do the best savings in the world.

what we want is to develop the players to try to do a project of that. we feel proud. those are glad to try to embarrassing employers in academy. what do the following players have in common? and yet, jerry became correct. they all are trained as marcia, which is by the football academy. oh, sorry, i forgot missy. of course. i must. he is just as much a part of f t bar salon as dna 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 still women have only been fully admitted in the residency since 2021. but since their 1st link title but us f. m and embrace 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 have been at the club for quite some time. this team became a force to be reckoned with and reached the $2900.00 champions league final where they were trashed for one but long the dominant force and the european women's football about us f. m. a nice time hadn't come yet, but sometimes these are their moments when the big champions are born. and there's one that's put on. that's why the us put on face husky, uncle, mother eunice, and douglas about the they will talk about it. but the, the see if you don't know who i'm in oregon washington as well us, you know, something equal here. yes, i get to the and got it up. and he went on fishing and then asked him us into this and out of where little 3 spanish lead follow. 202021 and money to

buy the stuff in the one the champions league in 2021. except that they, as the balloon does the same year. all this has created one big buzz 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 feminine. now flashing cash on accomplish players from abroad like suite natural food signed in 2021. c. fields divide that well, i think the main reason is like the interest you, you see the people in the city they're really interested. they are following up. i think it's the interest and also the the team has been so successful and the claim file, 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 t e o. all set up,

the king of football says this about but of any success as though not the oak c on economic in marietta near laws. they chose the delta v c o. in market being all up, all the c, c. c. last in this year. and as probably see that is not suddenly important this nearby, and i said well those in april he's got to bless them those passionate about stuff and we need don't care though football, right? or andrea sanchez travels 3 hours from valencia to see them play and see something in them that used to mark the man's team. so you're more young about him and you know, take it ok. you want speed to go, but if you ok, your mate will start getting on a keyboard. usually the point in that to get back to band. although individuals, doris, this is alex, i put a i stand out as with the best bar. so side,

it's always about the team is doesn't premium individual biddle, seen the legend next, ito, calling people to fatal guillotine days, se. but again, julia douglas does. he can. okay. them being a lexi dorthy alex. yup. would they? yas gone for a while on the order at other own obviously leda good lady. i and see espanol le north. anyhow, he can okay. book up we'll go back, ceased the in the ready. i spend your that you watch a bunch of wisdom about us. a feminist success has made women's football in catalonia popular 15000 players bets 10 percent of those registered in 2022. our women, 5 years back. that number was still only around 10000 catalonia numbers are significantly higher than the rest of spain. with one explanation, the role models are easier to identify now for young girls than in the past. titles,

awards, 90000 people in the stadium. well that helps freestyle or paloma has noticed a shift left me yesterday, but i put in your well away a lot of stuff in there for the style. i left mina a list, but i won't. bell can i said who balise document. he's been c 11. i won't o'clock, you get a said amanda smith, the young kid was gonna come with her and i look good. i must had it come on my feet. oh yes leah go next to people. if you would argument even push get a mechanical 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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