"What the foot ?!" An article published on Slate.fr traces the fate of girls and women across thirteen countries around the world who aspire to assert themselves by running behind a ball. The report is the fruit of the work of a Brussels photojournalist collective, the Huma collective. They offer a world tour, from the angle of the round ball. "Women's football is a mirror of our society," said one of the journalists. "Through football, we can tell in each society how it goes for them."
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From Argentina to Benin
In Argentina, they followed the feminist fight of Macarena Sánchez Jeanney who campaigned for footballers to become professional. In a deprived district of Buenos Aires, the footballers take possession of the public space. In Brussels, in the Molenbeek club, they have gone from three players in 2010 to 300 currently playing small bridges and leg passes on synthetic turf.
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In Benin, 16 teams have been created. In the north of the country, we discover the "Gazelles de Gouandé". Gatherings that allow girls to address, on the fringes of sport, the issue of forced marriage and that of early pregnancy.
The objective of the Huma collective is to combine football and education. All these photos taken around the world have since become an educational tool distributed in Belgian schools to debate on gender equality in sport. The work of journalists was also exhibited in Brussels.