In the country where football is king, solidarity exists, even between rival cities. A Brazilian football club will thus lend 19 players to its rival, whose workforce has been decimated by economic problems, so that he can take part in the resumption of the first women's division on Saturday. This unusual gesture is at the initiative of the 3B club, from the State of Amazonas, whose women's section is playing in the second division championship.
Her great rival and neighbor Iranduba, one of the only two Brazilian teams to have played eight seasons in the top flight since the creation of the national women's championship, had to part with twelve players whom he could no longer pay after the departure of his main sponsor. Only four footballers from the club remained registered for the resumption of the championship on Saturday, against Vitoria, after nearly six months of interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
"A contribution for the future of women's football in Brazil"
The 19 players from 3B will be loaned to Iranduba until the end of the competition on October 18 and will be able to return to their team for the start of the second division championship a week later. Staff members have also been made available to the rival club, as well as part of the sports facilities. "It is a contribution to the future of women's football in Brazil, showing our union despite all obstacles," said 3B president Bosco Brasil Bindá in a statement.
The 3B was born in 2017, after a disagreement between leaders of the Iranduba, the dissidents having decided to create their own club. This split is at the origin of a great local rivalry, the two teams having faced each other in the final of the last three editions of the Amazonas State Women's Championship.
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