Nuestras futbolistas merecen volar en primera

<p><strong>Spain’s women's under-19s played their fifth consecutive European final
yesterday</strong>, beating Germany and confirming that women’s football in our country already
deserves to fly in first class.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.as.com/en/2018/07/27/football/1532688413_685161.html"
target="_blank">Barcelona amended their error</a>, which surely they will not make again.
<strong>Spain's female footballers, pickaxes in hands, are breaking down walls,</strong> and it
is time for us to move away the obstacles (the main one being the indifference towards their
sport) that we have put in their path.</p>
<p><strong>It is worth mentioning that the Women’s U-17s team are four-time European
champions</strong> and have finished runners up on several occasions. So this is not a one or
two-time thing, our young female teams are consistently up there with the best. I like this for
two reasons: I like football and I like that football can serve as a platform in the fight for
equality.</p>
<p>As I always, when I write about this topic,<strong> I deplore the fact that Real Madrid is far
behind on this issue.</strong> I don’t know why Florentino Perez has such a narrow-minded view.
Barcelona invests 3.5 million euros in its women’s team, Atléti around half of that.
I<strong>nstead of Real Madrid blowing money on crappy investments like Lucas Silva or Coentrao,
they could invest that money in their female teams,</strong> both in football and basketball.
That kind of money is not much to the club, but it would go a long way in supporting the female
teams for a decade.</p>