Virginie Phulpin 1:15 p.m., February 08, 2022
Olympique Lyonnais player Ada Hegerberg attacks the French Football Federation.
The one who won the first women's golden ball in 2018 indeed regrets France's candidacy for Euro 2025, when she believes that the women's championship is abandoned.
And for the sports columnist Virginie Phulpin, you should listen to the sportswoman.
EDITORIAL
Ada Hegerberg shakes up the French Football Federation.
The Swede from Olympique Lyonnais criticizes France's candidacy for Euro 2025 at the same time as the women's championship is abandoned.
For sports columnist Virginie Phulpin, it would be nice to listen to the sportswoman.
Organizing major competitions is not enough
"Ada Hegerberg does not have the tongue in her pocket. And so much the better. Football needs players like her. The French football federation is a candidate for the organization of the Euro 2025 women's football. And the federation gargling this initiative. As if it were the ultimate proof of an unfailing commitment. Ada Hegerberg therefore put her foot in the dish. "Organizing international competitions is good.
Investing in our championship is better.
We are picking up and the 2019 World Cup had no impact.
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Difficult to do more directly.
It's one of the characteristics of this great OL striker, the first women's golden ball in 2018. A voice that carries, on and off the pitch.
And she is right.
Organizing major competitions is not enough.
If it's to go into ecstasy for 15 days, fill the stadiums, make TV ratings and then let the soufflé fall by pretending the job has been done, it's useless.
This is exactly what happened for the 2019 World Cup in France.
And don't tell me it's because women's football doesn't interest anyone.
We have to stop taking things backwards.
It is by giving impetus to a movement that we will inspire the public.
Not the opposite.
Follow England's lead
This is where the Euro will take place this summer.
But the English do not see this competition at all as an enchanted parenthesis to be politically correct, before resuming the normal course of football life, with the men.
Not at all.
They understood the importance of women's football.
They also understood what it could bring them big, that's for sure.
It's been 4 years since they pulled out all the stops, and they were starting from afar, with a dying women's championship, a few teams struggling to get by.
Today it is the championship with the highest value in the world.
With TV rights of 8 million euros per year.
The clubs restructured, they had to pay their players correctly, which pulled everyone up.
And it works !
England has become 'the place to be' for star footballers.
The championship is homogeneous, competitive, there are real rivalries, with posters that are played in large full stadiums.
The machine is launched and the Euro is therefore the logical continuation of this policy, not a moment out of nowhere.
While France is a candidate to organize Euro 2025, very well.
But on condition that we don't repeat the same mistakes as for the 2019 World Cup. We should listen to players like Ada Hegerberg more often."