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Do you
know what we're here

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to talk about today, Brandi?

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Women's soccer.

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Well, specifically about

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the first Women's World Cup,
which was when?

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1991.

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And you were there, right?

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Representing the U.S.A.?

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I've actually got something
I'd quite like you to watch.

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Okay.

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That's a massive stadium.

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It's a men's football match?

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It's women's football.

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What?

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Okay, this is
women's football.

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What year was this?

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1971.

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This is unbelievable.

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<i>¡Goal!</i>

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Why didn't I know about this?

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It makes me very happy and...

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quite infuriated,
to be honest with you.

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I mean...

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I-I'm almost
at a loss for words.

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<i>Once in a while,</i>

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<i>you come across a story</i>

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<i>that has to be seen</i>
<i>to be believed.</i>

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<i>Mexico City, 1971.</i>

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<i>A global tournament</i>

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<i>of unprecedented scale</i>
<i>is about to begin.</i>

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<i>But despite</i>
<i>the record-breaking crowds,</i>

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<i>you'll find no mention</i>
<i>of this event</i>

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<i>in any official history.</i>

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<i>And the film footage</i>
<i>has been hidden</i>

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<i>for over 50 years.</i>

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<i>Why?</i>

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<i>Because all the players</i>
<i>on the pitch...</i>

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<i>are women.</i>

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Tears rolled down me cheeks,

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and I remember thinking,

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"I'm never gonna see
anything like this again."

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<i>¡Goal!</i>

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<i>¡Goal!</i>

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We didn't
even speak about it

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'til nearly 50 years later.

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When I was
about five or six,

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my dad took me
down to Newcastle.

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It was freezing cold.

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And the snow, it was comin'
up to the top of me Wellys.

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And we got the park,

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and it was a Saturday.

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All of a sudden,
I heard this massive roar.

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And it sank the life
out of me.

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"What was that?

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What was that?
What was that noise?"

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My dad said,
"They're playing football."

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It was euphoric.

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And I thought, "One day,
that's what I want to do."

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But all through school,

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and we were never allowed
to play football, ever.

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Netball...

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hockey...

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anything but football.

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<i>Allez.</i>

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To understand the reasons

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for the resistance
to women's football,

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one has to go back
to the 19th century.

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Right from the beginning,

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there's a real energy
for women's football.

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And, in England, by 1917,

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you have perhaps 100 clubs.

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And the numbers
are building and building.

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But then many doctors

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start publishing articles
in very reputable journals

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saying football
is dangerous for women.

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"This is bad
for women's health

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and their wombs
and their ovaries."

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And so, in 1921,

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the English
Football Association

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says to all of its members,

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"If you allow women
to use your facilities,

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"you will be
banned and excluded

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from the Football
Association."

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Immediately, a lot of European
football associations follow,

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and in Italy and Brazil,

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it becomes a criminal offense
for women to play football.

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Women's football
carried on being played,

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but it's being forced
to the margins.

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It's almost invisible.

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<i>The first thing that hits you</i>

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<i>about an operational</i>
<i>fighter station is the noise.</i>

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When I left school,

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you were expected
to get married,

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settle down, have kids,

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and cook.

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That's about it.

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I didn't want to do that,

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so I joined the Air Force.

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I thought, "I bet
if I join the Air Force,

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I'll be able
to play football there."

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At lunchtime, I used to play
five-a-side with the lads.

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This one day, I saw a load
of girls starting to play

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in the next five-a-side.

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I was looking and looking.

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I thought,
"They're playing football."

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And I was gob-smacked,

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'cause I had not
seen this before.

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On a field, girls playing.

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Here it is.

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There they are.

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Where have you been
all me life?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it was definitely
a case of that.

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Welcome to the Memorial Park,
Coventry,

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where a local derby
is in progress.

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This is ladies' football.

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Who wouldn't be happy
going through the sixties?

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It was a revolution.

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Congratulations, Trudy.

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What's a nice girl
like you doing

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playing football, though?

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What's wrong
with playing football?

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Well, it's a man's game,
isn't it?

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No. Sport's for everybody.

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Why are you so mad keen
on football?

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Why don't you play hockey
or something like that?

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Well, it's always
been football

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since I was about three.

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Up and down the country,
ladies in proper football gear

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all playing different teams.

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This match
was played soon after

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the Football Association
had been nagged

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into allowing women's teams
to play on affiliated grounds.

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Just the most amazing time.

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I think our society,
was a very big step

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- Mm-hmm.
- to be accepted.

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I can knit,
and I can use a chain saw.

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But, you know, I don't want
to be put in a box.

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We didn't play football

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because we want
to attack the men.

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I played football because
I like to play football.

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You must have the mickey
taken out of you quite a lot.

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Do you get accused
of being a tomboy

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- or something like that?
- Yes.

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What's your reaction to that?

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I don't care.

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In England, there was
no newspaper coverage,

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apart from people
making horrible comments.

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They weren't
particularly interested

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or in favor
of women playing football.

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Barriers seemed to be
people in authority

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and not necessarily
"people" in authority,

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now, to be clear about it.
It was men in authority.

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I had decided that, uh,
if I am re-elected,

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that I'd propose a president
to act, say, for four years.

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In the late 1960s,

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all the people who run
football, they're all men.

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And FIFA, the governing body
of global football,

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has a fundamentally
and profoundly

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conservative outlook
on the world.

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They think that basically
women's football

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is a disreputable,
immoral, immodest activity.

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They still come
to the idea of football

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as an exclusively
masculine space

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for celebrating
masculine virtues.

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In 1970,

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Mexico hosted
the men's World Cup.

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And it was just magnetic.

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The Estadio Azteca was
an architectural marvel.

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It was the first World Cup
that was transmitted in color.

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And Pelé!

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Well, it had to be Pelé.

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We see the final
in the men's World Cup

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was very impressive.

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A very special dream
to go on the same ground.

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Yeah. You know,
we all have crazy dreams,

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but, uh, not all come true.

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Not...

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Carlos Alberto's
coming up on his right!

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Oh, magnificent!

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Magnificent!

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When you organize
an event like the World Cup,

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that meant that the eyes
of the world were on you.

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So businessmen who want
to keep making money

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said, given the infrastructure
already there,

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"Why don't we try
something else?"

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"Why don't we try
a women's World Cup?"

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Obviously there is
a lot of resistance.

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FIFA was not behind it.

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The Mexican Federation
was not behind it,

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let alone the rest
of the federations.

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"Dear Professor...

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"As there is...

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"no official world recognition
of women's soccer

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"and therefore
no world-governing body,

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"this Association
does not recognize

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"the tournament
being run in Mexico City

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as the World Cup
of women's soccer."

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The manager of
my local team was Harry Batt.

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I told you this before.

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00:18:55,369 --> 00:18:58,438
For God's sake, don't all
fall back in defense.

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00:18:58,573 --> 00:19:00,307
I want you
to keep on the pass.

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00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,311
He just had big plans for
ladies' football in general.

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00:19:04,444 --> 00:19:07,115
And Harry didn't play
by the F.A. rules.

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Attack is
the best form of defense.

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Now, then, off you go, girls.

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He had been talking
for a while

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about the <i>Copa del Mundo.</i>

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There was no official
English team at that point,

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because they had
just had the ban lifted.

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00:19:24,098 --> 00:19:25,733
So it just sounded like there

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wasn't a possibility
that it was gonna happen.

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00:19:30,038 --> 00:19:33,608
But Harry was really
forward-thinking in his ideas,

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00:19:33,741 --> 00:19:35,475
and he traveled
around the country

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to scout players
for the team.

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And he wasn't shy
of going out and hustling.

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One day,
we'd just finished

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training at the ground,

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and Harry calls us over,
and he said, "Girls,

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I got something to tell you."

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00:19:53,761 --> 00:19:55,963
And I thought
it was really bad news.

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00:19:57,098 --> 00:20:00,835
He said, "Martini Rossi
are gonna sponsor us

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00:20:00,968 --> 00:20:04,872
to go to Mexico to play
in the World Cup Final."

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00:20:05,006 --> 00:20:06,007
Oh, God.

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00:20:06,140 --> 00:20:08,576
Me legs were like jelly.

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We were unofficial,
of course.

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No, uh, support from Danish
Football Association at all.

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00:21:07,467 --> 00:21:09,804
So we had to do it ourselves,

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with support from friends
and families.

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00:21:15,743 --> 00:21:18,079
Getting on that plane
was, like, surreal.

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None of us had been on a plane
before, not any of us.

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To go somewhere like that,

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00:21:32,927 --> 00:21:34,929
and for ordinary,
working-class girls,

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it was a dream.

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Got to Mexico,
and they pull a ladder up,

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and the doors open.

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And all these
flash lights went off.

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Just light, light everywhere.

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00:21:52,345 --> 00:21:53,681
You couldn't see.

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00:21:56,250 --> 00:21:59,854
And I said, "There's someone
famous on this plane."

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00:22:02,290 --> 00:22:03,390
But it was us.

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00:22:09,329 --> 00:22:10,798
Going from England,

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where women were frowned upon
for playing football,

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00:22:12,733 --> 00:22:15,503
to go somewhere like that
and see other countries even.

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It was like
a parallel universe.

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Coming out of the airport,
and it was lined,

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just lined and lined and
lined and lined with people.

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00:23:16,864 --> 00:23:18,431
And they was throwing things
at the coach.

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00:23:21,869 --> 00:23:23,671
We thought they were
trying to get us.

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00:23:25,673 --> 00:23:27,008
But what they were doing

251
00:23:27,141 --> 00:23:30,111
was throwing presents
in the window for us.

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00:23:37,818 --> 00:23:40,988
We'd landed in a world
that we didn't know.

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00:23:50,898 --> 00:23:53,433
Of course
FIFA and the officials

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look at this
as a kind of disgrace.

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00:23:56,237 --> 00:23:58,940
They don't like
anything about it.

256
00:23:59,073 --> 00:24:00,875
They don't like the fact
that somebody else

257
00:24:01,008 --> 00:24:04,645
is taking their name,
the "World Cup."

258
00:24:07,315 --> 00:24:10,785
You add to it that it's
a women's World Cup.

259
00:24:10,918 --> 00:24:14,555
That's ringing
a lot of alarm bells.

260
00:24:16,223 --> 00:24:20,061
And so FIFA say to the Mexican
Football Federation,

261
00:24:20,194 --> 00:24:23,631
"If you use these stadiums
for women's football,

262
00:24:23,764 --> 00:24:25,366
we're gonna fine you,
we're gonna ban you."

263
00:24:25,498 --> 00:24:29,670
So instead of going to
the small provincial stadiums,

264
00:24:29,804 --> 00:24:31,305
they force the tournament

265
00:24:31,439 --> 00:24:34,474
into two of the largest
stadiums in Mexico,

266
00:24:34,608 --> 00:24:36,944
the Jalisco...

267
00:24:37,078 --> 00:24:39,046
and the Azteca...

268
00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:43,017
places that the Football
Association does not control.

269
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:50,124
The dominant Mexican
media group owns them.

270
00:24:52,026 --> 00:24:55,262
But to fill 110,000
in the Azteca,

271
00:24:55,396 --> 00:25:00,101
the organizers have to go
all out to promote this thing.

272
00:25:00,234 --> 00:25:01,902
And that's what they did.

273
00:25:02,036 --> 00:25:05,740
Through all of their, uh,
magazines, their television,

274
00:25:05,873 --> 00:25:08,075
their radio, their newspapers.

275
00:25:09,310 --> 00:25:10,444
<i>Time, weather, and...</i>

276
00:25:32,967 --> 00:25:35,169
We have a photographer
attached to us the whole time.

277
00:25:50,117 --> 00:25:53,721
<i>Uh, we're really gonna</i>
<i>stress the feminine angle.</i>

278
00:25:54,655 --> 00:25:56,590
<i>Uh, women who play soccer</i>

279
00:25:56,724 --> 00:25:59,026
<i>are not</i>
<i>muscular monstrosities,</i>

280
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,929
<i>no, but, like,</i>
<i>generally pretty girls.</i>

281
00:26:05,032 --> 00:26:07,835
Then medias follow our trip
very close,

282
00:26:07,968 --> 00:26:10,638
and the papers
write a lot of things.

283
00:26:12,306 --> 00:26:13,974
<i>There will be,</i>
<i>uh, beauty salons</i>

284
00:26:14,108 --> 00:26:16,410
<i>in the dressing rooms.</i>

285
00:26:22,583 --> 00:26:26,253
<i>Uniforms will be as close</i>
<i>as possible to hot pants.</i>

286
00:26:26,387 --> 00:26:28,089
<i>It's natural.</i>

287
00:26:28,222 --> 00:26:30,925
<i>The combination</i>
<i>of the passions</i>

288
00:26:31,058 --> 00:26:35,096
<i>of most men around the world,</i>
<i>soccer and women.</i>

289
00:29:12,353 --> 00:29:14,455
It was literally
like a wave hitting you.

290
00:29:14,589 --> 00:29:17,057
You thought it would
knock you off your feet.

291
00:29:19,994 --> 00:29:23,397
I was used to only
six people watching you.

292
00:29:29,136 --> 00:29:31,405
I had to shake meself,
pinch meself.

293
00:29:32,339 --> 00:29:34,074
And it wasn't just young kids.

294
00:29:34,208 --> 00:29:36,143
It was men, grown men.

295
00:30:20,387 --> 00:30:23,123
<i>¡Rah, rah, rah!</i>

296
00:30:57,358 --> 00:30:59,026
<i>¡México! ¡México!</i>

297
00:30:59,159 --> 00:31:00,894
<i>¡Rah, rah, rah!</i>

298
00:31:08,335 --> 00:31:10,204
<i>¡Goal, goal, goal, goal!</i>

299
00:31:10,337 --> 00:31:12,139
<i>¡Bum, bum!</i>

300
00:31:12,272 --> 00:31:14,108
<i>¡Bim, bum, bah!</i>

301
00:32:01,455 --> 00:32:03,223
Chiquitibumalabimbumba.

302
00:32:03,357 --> 00:32:04,925
<i>¡Bim, bum, bah!</i>

303
00:32:05,058 --> 00:32:06,661
<i>¡México! ¡México!</i>

304
00:32:06,795 --> 00:32:08,162
<i>¡Rah, rah, rah!</i>

305
00:33:14,061 --> 00:33:17,231
We used to train
in the morning at 7:00.

306
00:33:18,967 --> 00:33:23,505
Even then, there was about 300
or 400 children watching us.

307
00:33:26,941 --> 00:33:28,977
The training was
physically hard,

308
00:33:29,109 --> 00:33:31,913
because it got so hot.

309
00:33:32,045 --> 00:33:34,414
The altitude was
just, um, wow...

310
00:33:34,549 --> 00:33:37,150
It was real tough
circuit training.

311
00:33:37,284 --> 00:33:41,856
The physicality of it,
just absolutely loved it.

312
00:33:44,091 --> 00:33:46,059
Carol was
a hard taskmaster.

313
00:33:46,193 --> 00:33:48,495
She really put us
through out paces every day.

314
00:33:49,697 --> 00:33:51,465
To be captain,
I think you've got to take

315
00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:54,401
some responsibility
for the team, you know.

316
00:33:54,536 --> 00:33:56,270
You've got to try
and pull them together.

317
00:33:58,071 --> 00:34:01,509
And if there's any nerves,
you gotta try and settle them.

318
00:34:01,643 --> 00:34:05,813
I didn't see Argentina
as a threat to us.

319
00:34:08,683 --> 00:34:11,519
Little did we know
what was to come.

320
00:34:40,014 --> 00:34:42,382
You've got to literally
pull yourself together

321
00:34:42,517 --> 00:34:44,652
and give yourself
a good talking-to.

322
00:34:44,786 --> 00:34:47,321
'Cause this is it.
There's no second run.

323
00:35:05,238 --> 00:35:06,541
When we scored, my feet

324
00:35:06,674 --> 00:35:09,010
didn't hit the ground
for about three seconds.

325
00:35:09,142 --> 00:35:11,244
I was up in the air.

326
00:35:12,145 --> 00:35:13,447
There was no question

327
00:35:13,581 --> 00:35:15,282
about the fact that
we weren't going away.

328
00:35:30,665 --> 00:35:34,702
We all underestimated
the Argentinean team.

329
00:35:56,390 --> 00:35:57,558
<i>¡Goal, goal!</i>

330
00:36:03,296 --> 00:36:06,067
I can remember
being very despondent.

331
00:36:06,199 --> 00:36:08,201
It's not
the scenario we planned.

332
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,149
We're in Mexico City
for 14 days.

333
00:36:55,282 --> 00:37:00,822
And then we went in an old bus
across the Mexican country.

334
00:37:03,524 --> 00:37:04,892
To Guadalajara,

335
00:37:05,026 --> 00:37:07,829
where we are going to play
the two first games.

336
00:37:22,009 --> 00:37:25,245
But the bus breaks down
in the desert.

337
00:37:26,346 --> 00:37:28,783
And we didn't know what to do.

338
00:37:32,385 --> 00:37:35,690
But then the Italian team
came back for us.

339
00:37:39,426 --> 00:37:42,630
The Italian team
has a new bus.

340
00:37:44,498 --> 00:37:47,467
With air conditioned,
everything.

341
00:37:48,836 --> 00:37:51,873
And they brought us
to Guadalajara.

342
00:38:31,813 --> 00:38:33,514
The games that were
in Guadalajara,

343
00:38:33,648 --> 00:38:35,550
they were live on TV.

344
00:38:37,919 --> 00:38:39,954
Never seen women
playing on TV at all.

345
00:38:40,087 --> 00:38:42,489
First time you saw it,
it was just like, "Wow."

346
00:38:42,623 --> 00:38:44,258
You couldn't believe
what you were seeing.

347
00:38:44,391 --> 00:38:46,994
Was just brilliant.

348
00:39:12,987 --> 00:39:14,622
We won 3-0,

349
00:39:14,755 --> 00:39:18,425
and, uh, we were quite happy
about the result.

350
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,863
Drove down
this steep slope.

351
00:40:30,564 --> 00:40:32,033
And the nerves were going,
you know.

352
00:40:32,166 --> 00:40:34,702
We could-- couldn't really
hear all of the sound,

353
00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:37,071
so we had no idea
what it was like out there.

354
00:40:42,276 --> 00:40:43,511
The noise...

355
00:40:43,644 --> 00:40:44,779
was just...

356
00:40:46,747 --> 00:40:47,848
I'll never forget it.

357
00:42:22,043 --> 00:42:23,711
It was hard.
It was the altitude.

358
00:42:23,844 --> 00:42:24,812
It was the heat.

359
00:42:24,945 --> 00:42:26,515
It was the different level.

360
00:42:41,729 --> 00:42:43,197
It was very...

361
00:42:43,330 --> 00:42:45,699
very, very, very physical.

362
00:42:51,972 --> 00:42:54,775
Carol ended up in--
with her leg in plaster.

363
00:42:56,511 --> 00:42:59,780
And it was a-- a bone
in my foot that was broken.

364
00:44:17,458 --> 00:44:18,593
It was devastating.

365
00:44:18,726 --> 00:44:21,095
It was devastating
when we lost.

366
00:44:21,228 --> 00:44:23,797
And most of us were
pretty much reduced to tears.

367
00:44:27,134 --> 00:44:29,770
Sadly, that's how it was.

368
00:44:33,642 --> 00:44:37,512
Nevertheless, getting
that far on a world stage,

369
00:44:37,646 --> 00:44:38,712
we achieved something.

370
00:44:41,048 --> 00:44:43,050
And when we got back
to the hotel,

371
00:44:43,184 --> 00:44:45,953
some children had made
a little placard

372
00:44:46,086 --> 00:44:47,922
to say that we might
have lost the game,

373
00:44:48,055 --> 00:44:49,857
but you've won
the hearts of Mexico,

374
00:44:49,990 --> 00:44:51,526
so crikey.

375
00:44:55,729 --> 00:44:57,431
The whole
of the Mexican team

376
00:44:57,566 --> 00:44:59,200
came over to our hotel

377
00:44:59,333 --> 00:45:02,369
to give their condolences
and wish us well.

378
00:45:04,939 --> 00:45:07,576
Feeling was we wanted
to stay out there

379
00:45:07,708 --> 00:45:10,144
until the final was over.

380
00:45:15,584 --> 00:45:17,017
We did an awful lot of things.

381
00:45:17,151 --> 00:45:20,254
We did tours.
We opened shops.

382
00:45:22,756 --> 00:45:24,825
We went to dinners.

383
00:45:24,959 --> 00:45:26,427
Each embassy put on a party.

384
00:45:57,825 --> 00:45:59,393
We had so much fun

385
00:45:59,527 --> 00:46:02,597
around our training
and our matches.

386
00:46:04,064 --> 00:46:05,667
When we were walking
on the streets,

387
00:46:05,799 --> 00:46:07,535
shopping or buying souvenirs,

388
00:46:07,669 --> 00:46:11,506
we also, every time,
have a big crowd around us,

389
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,774
making auto-- autographs.

390
00:46:15,543 --> 00:46:17,712
It's a lot
of different stories.

391
00:46:17,845 --> 00:46:20,381
It's not only about football.

392
00:46:23,652 --> 00:46:26,588
To be in a tournament
dedicated to women,

393
00:46:26,721 --> 00:46:29,658
in the beginning, we didn't
think that much about it.

394
00:46:29,823 --> 00:46:31,358
But during the tournament,

395
00:46:31,492 --> 00:46:35,697
we felt that it was important
for women all over the world

396
00:46:35,829 --> 00:46:38,932
to see that this was possible.

397
00:46:49,644 --> 00:46:52,079
Copa 1971 is a huge success.

398
00:46:52,212 --> 00:46:55,382
It's got unbelievable
levels of press coverage.

399
00:46:58,285 --> 00:47:02,256
It demonstrated clearly
the commercial potential,

400
00:47:02,389 --> 00:47:04,825
and so that is worrying
for FIFA.

401
00:47:04,958 --> 00:47:06,126
"Gah. You know, this is just

402
00:47:06,260 --> 00:47:08,028
the tip of the iceberg,
isn't it?"

403
00:47:10,264 --> 00:47:14,001
The immediate reaction
is like all wounded men,

404
00:47:14,134 --> 00:47:15,969
negative, violent,
and aggressive.

405
00:47:16,103 --> 00:47:19,808
So the call begins
to go out from FIFA.

406
00:47:19,940 --> 00:47:22,577
"If there's a women's football
association in your country,

407
00:47:22,711 --> 00:47:26,013
you need to find a way
of actually controlling it."

408
00:47:26,146 --> 00:47:27,615
It's about authority,

409
00:47:27,749 --> 00:47:30,284
and it's about who's the boss.

410
00:47:30,417 --> 00:47:34,021
It's both a gender issue,
and it's a control issue.

411
00:53:42,990 --> 00:53:44,659
<i>¿Sí?</i>

412
00:55:29,997 --> 00:55:33,734
We play against
Argentina in the semi-final.

413
00:55:33,868 --> 00:55:36,070
We won 5-0.

414
00:55:36,204 --> 00:55:38,973
Now Mexico and Denmark

415
00:55:39,106 --> 00:55:41,909
are going to meet each other
in the final.

416
00:55:45,345 --> 00:55:51,418
People in the city came
to our hotel in the night.

417
00:55:55,890 --> 00:55:59,694
Sitting on top of the cars
with a Mexican flag,

418
00:55:59,827 --> 00:56:03,496
and they cry, "Mexico!
Mexico! Rah, rah, rah!"

419
00:56:05,266 --> 00:56:07,301
<i>¡México! ¡México!</i>

420
00:56:07,434 --> 00:56:09,203
And the whole night,

421
00:56:09,337 --> 00:56:12,139
they drove around our hotel.

422
00:56:12,273 --> 00:56:13,674
We couldn't sleep.

423
00:56:13,808 --> 00:56:16,544
Then the Danish
embassy arranged

424
00:56:16,677 --> 00:56:18,346
that we could go and sleep

425
00:56:18,478 --> 00:56:21,148
with Danish families
in Mexico City.

426
00:56:21,282 --> 00:56:22,482
That was very nice.

427
00:56:24,051 --> 00:56:25,887
<i>¡Bim, bum, bah!</i>

428
00:56:26,020 --> 00:56:28,022
<i>¡México! ¡México!</i>

429
00:56:28,155 --> 00:56:29,991
<i>¡Rah, rah, rah!</i>

430
00:56:31,025 --> 00:56:34,161
And the next day,
Mexico said,

431
00:56:34,295 --> 00:56:35,897
"We will not play the match."

432
00:57:40,962 --> 00:57:43,397
It's only logical
for women to say, "Okay,

433
00:57:43,531 --> 00:57:46,000
why aren't we
being paid for this?"

434
00:57:46,934 --> 00:57:48,302
"There's sponsorship.

435
00:57:48,436 --> 00:57:49,804
"Tickets are being sold.

436
00:57:49,937 --> 00:57:53,774
"Somebody else's pocket
is getting quite full.

437
00:57:53,908 --> 00:57:56,310
We should also
be getting paid for this."

438
00:58:24,138 --> 00:58:28,676
The first step towards
independence is having money.

439
00:58:28,809 --> 00:58:32,513
When women start to ask
for money for your work,

440
00:58:32,646 --> 00:58:35,049
there tends to be
a very big resistance.

441
00:58:35,182 --> 00:58:37,818
"You're greedy.
You're ambitious.

442
00:58:37,952 --> 00:58:39,754
You don't want to help out."

443
00:59:01,942 --> 00:59:05,046
These women were
challenging so many norms.

444
00:59:05,179 --> 00:59:07,415
I don't think
they had much of an idea

445
00:59:07,548 --> 00:59:09,950
of what they were
culturally doing

446
00:59:10,084 --> 00:59:12,987
or the significance
of their acts.

447
00:59:14,655 --> 00:59:16,757
They just translated
into something

448
00:59:16,891 --> 00:59:18,726
that was, uh, transgressive,

449
00:59:18,859 --> 00:59:21,796
and they were being
incredibly brave at the time.

450
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:11,005
We took off in our very,
very, very, very old bus.

451
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:14,008
In the front...

452
01:01:14,141 --> 01:01:15,776
- Police.
- ...police.

453
01:01:15,910 --> 01:01:17,745
Uh, the motorbike. Rr-rr.

454
01:01:17,878 --> 01:01:19,280
Blue light and everything.

455
01:01:20,881 --> 01:01:22,216
On every corner,

456
01:01:22,349 --> 01:01:25,319
there was a policeman
standing with a motorbike

457
01:01:25,452 --> 01:01:28,289
and talking
in his br-br-br-br-br.

458
01:01:31,458 --> 01:01:32,893
That was very exciting.

459
01:01:33,027 --> 01:01:36,531
We sat there. "Oh, oh, oh,
that's us coming here."

460
01:02:34,822 --> 01:02:36,390
The atmosphere was electric.

461
01:02:36,524 --> 01:02:38,092
It was-- It was amazing.

462
01:03:26,775 --> 01:03:28,777
When we go up to the field,

463
01:03:28,909 --> 01:03:30,612
you hardly see the sky,

464
01:03:30,745 --> 01:03:31,845
because it's so big.

465
01:03:35,583 --> 01:03:37,284
We couldn't
speak to each other,

466
01:03:37,418 --> 01:03:41,523
because the crowd around
the field was so excited.

467
01:03:44,526 --> 01:03:47,428
We go around the field
waving to people.

468
01:03:47,562 --> 01:03:48,862
We are not nervous.

469
01:03:48,996 --> 01:03:52,066
And we are smiling,
and, uh, we are not--

470
01:03:52,199 --> 01:03:53,067
It looks happy.

471
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:54,068
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

472
01:03:54,201 --> 01:03:56,070
And we were happy.

473
01:05:25,492 --> 01:05:27,027
Early in the game,
the Mexicans

474
01:05:27,161 --> 01:05:30,330
had some few big
opportunities to go.

475
01:05:37,438 --> 01:05:39,072
But we felt confident.

476
01:05:44,779 --> 01:05:47,849
The Mexican players
was, uh, not so high.

477
01:06:08,502 --> 01:06:11,071
Alicia Vargas,
she was a good player,

478
01:06:11,205 --> 01:06:13,140
a very good technique.

479
01:06:14,408 --> 01:06:16,176
When we focus on her,

480
01:06:16,310 --> 01:06:18,913
it was easier
to shut down their play.

481
01:09:56,496 --> 01:09:58,933
- You are a team. Yeah.
- A team.

482
01:09:59,067 --> 01:10:01,301
And we had one goal together.

483
01:10:02,369 --> 01:10:03,671
- Winning the World Cup.
- Yes.

484
01:11:36,664 --> 01:11:39,734
We just were so happy.

485
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:48,209
Yeah, it was
an angel with wings.

486
01:11:48,341 --> 01:11:50,611
- And below it.
- Yes.

487
01:11:50,745 --> 01:11:52,113
Standing on the Earth.

488
01:11:52,246 --> 01:11:53,514
- Yeah.
- Yes.

489
01:11:56,951 --> 01:12:00,254
Captain was standing
there and got this trophy.

490
01:12:00,387 --> 01:12:02,190
And she was not so high.

491
01:12:02,322 --> 01:12:03,490
I sai-- Oh, we said,

492
01:12:03,624 --> 01:12:05,593
"Oh, nobody can see her."

493
01:12:05,726 --> 01:12:08,129
- And then we lifted her up.
- So we lifted her. Yeah.

494
01:12:08,262 --> 01:12:10,397
Yes, because they had to see.

495
01:12:10,531 --> 01:12:12,767
And then she sat there
with the trophy.

496
01:12:17,205 --> 01:12:18,338
Proud.

497
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,108
- I think we were proud.
- Yes.

498
01:12:24,045 --> 01:12:29,349
It was the highest point,
uh, ever and forever.

499
01:12:37,658 --> 01:12:39,694
Whenever they said
about women's football,

500
01:12:39,827 --> 01:12:41,295
it was always
a negative thing,

501
01:12:41,428 --> 01:12:42,830
and there was no interest.

502
01:12:42,964 --> 01:12:45,566
Nobody would sponsor it.
Crowds wouldn't come.

503
01:12:52,273 --> 01:12:55,042
The final, it had the lot.

504
01:12:55,176 --> 01:12:56,677
Crowd were there.

505
01:12:56,811 --> 01:12:58,880
The sponsorship was
all 'round on the ground.

506
01:13:00,915 --> 01:13:03,217
So we thought, "This is it.

507
01:13:03,351 --> 01:13:04,384
"This is it now.

508
01:13:04,518 --> 01:13:06,354
"Women's football's got it,

509
01:13:06,486 --> 01:13:07,521
and it's on the map."

510
01:13:35,049 --> 01:13:36,017
When we came back,

511
01:13:36,150 --> 01:13:38,286
there was a lot of press
and photographs.

512
01:13:42,623 --> 01:13:44,759
We were
in the Danish television.

513
01:13:51,532 --> 01:13:52,633
And then...

514
01:13:52,767 --> 01:13:54,568
Then nothing else.

515
01:13:57,038 --> 01:13:59,774
I was so naive that I thought

516
01:13:59,907 --> 01:14:03,344
we can go on
from the spot where we were

517
01:14:03,476 --> 01:14:05,012
and build up.

518
01:14:05,146 --> 01:14:07,148
But the men said, "Uh-uh.

519
01:14:07,281 --> 01:14:12,452
No, no. There has been
enough publicity about women."

520
01:14:17,591 --> 01:14:19,360
They took a piece of rubber
and did so.

521
01:14:20,528 --> 01:14:22,697
Now we start from scratch.

522
01:14:27,702 --> 01:14:30,738
Maybe they envy us,
this success.

523
01:14:30,871 --> 01:14:32,306
The men didn't do it,

524
01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:36,711
and, uh, we did it,
win the World Championship.

525
01:14:36,844 --> 01:14:42,383
Why couldn't they use, uh,
our success to build on?

526
01:14:42,516 --> 01:14:44,051
Why?

527
01:14:45,953 --> 01:14:48,122
I don't understand it.

528
01:14:48,255 --> 01:14:49,256
Do you understand it?

529
01:14:49,390 --> 01:14:50,257
No?

530
01:14:50,391 --> 01:14:51,292
No?

531
01:14:51,425 --> 01:14:52,760
Because we are women.

532
01:14:52,893 --> 01:14:54,061
Yeah. Because we are women,

533
01:14:54,195 --> 01:14:56,397
we are so stupid,
we don't understand.

534
01:14:56,530 --> 01:14:58,899
Maybe we must
not play football.

535
01:16:05,466 --> 01:16:07,034
We arrived at the airport,

536
01:16:07,168 --> 01:16:10,604
and I can't remember
seeing one photographer there.

537
01:16:11,772 --> 01:16:13,407
Nobody there
to meet you.

538
01:16:13,542 --> 01:16:14,942
No bunches of flowers.

539
01:16:15,076 --> 01:16:17,711
No invitations to parties.

540
01:16:17,845 --> 01:16:20,081
Nobody really
wanting to know you.

541
01:16:21,148 --> 01:16:22,983
It was less than
the one man and his dog

542
01:16:23,117 --> 01:16:24,452
who used to turn out
and play--

543
01:16:24,585 --> 01:16:25,920
and see us play
on our Sundays.

544
01:16:29,056 --> 01:16:31,325
And then we found out
we got banned.

545
01:16:35,663 --> 01:16:37,164
Because when we got banned,

546
01:16:37,298 --> 01:16:41,168
inside ourselves it--
we were shamed.

547
01:16:49,877 --> 01:16:52,613
We never spoke about it.
Never spoke about it.

548
01:17:00,688 --> 01:17:02,189
And thus
women's football,

549
01:17:02,323 --> 01:17:05,560
despite the incredible
energies of the era,

550
01:17:05,693 --> 01:17:07,228
is crushed.

551
01:17:07,361 --> 01:17:10,931
Football associations
hold the monopoly

552
01:17:11,065 --> 01:17:12,900
over organized football.

553
01:17:13,033 --> 01:17:17,539
And the threat is
to their control of the game.

554
01:17:17,671 --> 01:17:19,508
It's about power and money,

555
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:21,809
and it's about defending
those things

556
01:17:21,942 --> 01:17:24,778
for an exclusively
male population.

557
01:17:29,950 --> 01:17:31,185
I was invited to go

558
01:17:31,318 --> 01:17:33,522
to a dinner
with Newcastle United,

559
01:17:33,654 --> 01:17:35,689
so I said to me dad,
"Hey, Dad, do you wanna come?"

560
01:17:37,391 --> 01:17:40,694
I was invited up on the stage
by this comper.

561
01:17:40,828 --> 01:17:42,930
He said, "Oh,
we've got a big superstar

562
01:17:43,063 --> 01:17:44,431
"in the audience tonight.

563
01:17:44,566 --> 01:17:45,866
"We've got Carol Wilson.

564
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:47,902
She's captain
of the England's lady team."

565
01:17:48,035 --> 01:17:50,471
And it was a huge build-up.

566
01:17:52,239 --> 01:17:53,841
But the minute
I got on the stage,

567
01:17:53,974 --> 01:17:57,378
he did nothing but rip
women's football apart.

568
01:17:59,813 --> 01:18:02,249
Everybody was laughing,

569
01:18:02,383 --> 01:18:04,852
and I was humiliated.

570
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:07,955
I come off the stage,

571
01:18:08,088 --> 01:18:11,091
and me first words
to me dad were,

572
01:18:11,225 --> 01:18:13,494
"No, I'm finished
with football.

573
01:18:13,628 --> 01:18:14,895
I'm finished."

574
01:18:16,163 --> 01:18:18,899
And I didn't even speak
to any of the girls

575
01:18:19,033 --> 01:18:21,068
'til nearly 50 years later.

576
01:18:24,939 --> 01:18:26,440
Yeah, that's the story.

577
01:18:27,975 --> 01:18:29,843
That's the story.

578
01:18:33,881 --> 01:18:37,051
I saw a little bit
of confusion.

579
01:18:38,587 --> 01:18:39,521
Yeah, around here.

580
01:18:39,654 --> 01:18:40,655
Go! Go! Go! Yeah!

581
01:18:40,788 --> 01:18:42,356
- Here! Here!
- Yeah.

582
01:18:42,489 --> 01:18:43,592
Good cross.

583
01:18:43,724 --> 01:18:45,092
When I was growing up,

584
01:18:45,226 --> 01:18:47,728
I didn't ever dream
of playing in a World Cup.

585
01:18:47,861 --> 01:18:50,998
I never thought about playing
in the Olympic Games.

586
01:18:51,131 --> 01:18:52,499
Because they didn't exist.

587
01:18:54,636 --> 01:18:57,471
I knew nothing of Copa 1971.

588
01:18:57,606 --> 01:18:59,773
No one had ever spoken a word

589
01:18:59,907 --> 01:19:02,376
about this
tremendous tournament.

590
01:19:02,510 --> 01:19:05,946
Ashamed to say that,
but it's true.

591
01:19:07,248 --> 01:19:09,883
It's incredible
that there was an event

592
01:19:10,017 --> 01:19:13,821
that occurred like this,
of this magnitude.

593
01:19:13,954 --> 01:19:16,725
The fact
that women soccer players

594
01:19:16,857 --> 01:19:20,261
who, like myself, have been
playing at the top of my game

595
01:19:20,394 --> 01:19:25,466
and playing for my country,
um, for 13, 14 years,

596
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:26,767
have never heard of that,

597
01:19:26,900 --> 01:19:28,570
um, it's just unacceptable.

598
01:19:28,703 --> 01:19:31,038
This is just intentional,

599
01:19:31,171 --> 01:19:33,407
to hide women's football.

600
01:19:34,942 --> 01:19:38,245
Knowing the story of 1971 now,

601
01:19:38,379 --> 01:19:42,316
seeing the stadium, and
watching them on the field,

602
01:19:42,449 --> 01:19:45,185
I-I feel this closeness.

603
01:19:46,688 --> 01:19:49,557
Because without them,

604
01:19:49,691 --> 01:19:52,192
'91 may not have happened.

605
01:19:55,764 --> 01:19:58,098
From '91 to the World Cup,

606
01:19:58,232 --> 01:20:01,302
to '96,
the first Olympic Games...

607
01:20:09,711 --> 01:20:11,478
...to then 1999...

608
01:20:13,480 --> 01:20:15,282
Goal!

609
01:20:15,416 --> 01:20:18,919
...and the exponential growth
of women's football...

610
01:20:22,956 --> 01:20:25,025
Yes, we play sports.
Yes, we play soccer.

611
01:20:25,159 --> 01:20:27,027
Yes, we're female athletes.

612
01:20:27,161 --> 01:20:28,730
But we're so much more
than that.

613
01:20:30,431 --> 01:20:33,702
Perception of women's soccer
has changed dramatically.

614
01:20:33,834 --> 01:20:37,706
We have a thriving domestic
league here in the U.S.

615
01:20:37,838 --> 01:20:39,206
and in many other countries.

616
01:20:59,794 --> 01:21:00,662
No, we're not done.

617
01:21:00,795 --> 01:21:02,963
We're never done, ever.

618
01:21:04,865 --> 01:21:07,167
Honestly,
the women in 1971

619
01:21:07,301 --> 01:21:09,403
and the women in 2023,

620
01:21:09,537 --> 01:21:11,071
we're no different
from each other.

621
01:21:11,205 --> 01:21:13,541
Those women, they're warriors.

622
01:21:17,478 --> 01:21:19,980
It's up to us
to tell the stories,

623
01:21:20,114 --> 01:21:23,250
to make sure
that history is right.

624
01:21:23,384 --> 01:21:25,419
Because now I can say--
When people say,

625
01:21:25,553 --> 01:21:28,623
"Thank you so much
for starting what you did,"

626
01:21:28,757 --> 01:21:29,957
I'll say, "Oh, no.

627
01:21:30,090 --> 01:21:32,059
"I have some women
to tell you about.

628
01:21:32,192 --> 01:21:34,395
You don't know them,
but you will."

629
01:21:41,502 --> 01:21:44,672
Actually believe that,
along with many others,

630
01:21:44,806 --> 01:21:48,543
we paved the way
for what it's become today.

631
01:21:51,813 --> 01:21:53,947
They're no stopping us now.

632
01:22:01,155 --> 01:22:03,056
<i>¡Bim bum bah!</i>

633
01:22:03,190 --> 01:22:05,125
<i>¡México! ¡México!</i>

634
01:22:05,259 --> 01:22:06,895
<i>¡Rah, rah, rah!</i>


