Rating: 5 / 5

The man, in his sixties, was accused of having molested a fifteen-year-old player from Sulmona by telephone, to whom, in a growing confidence between May and August of 2015, he had sent dozens and dozens of messages, from "how beautiful you are" to the "if you give it to me I'll take you to Coverciano".
The fact does not exist says the judge of the court of Sulmona Marco Billi, not criminally at least. The acquittal of the 16 April from the accusations of soliciting a child and harassment for the sports manager of the women's soccer team of the province of Teramo, does not remove the seriousness, from the educational point of view, of what he himself admitted during the trial.

Read more: "If you give it to me I'll take you to Coverciano": acquitted sports manager ...

Rating: 5 / 5

Could the blows remedied in the last edition of the Champions League be avoided? Of course yes! Above all, we could have avoided the disappointing debut of Juventus and, I think, also of Fiorentina.
Companies fault? No, absolutely no! ... the fault is the slow bureaucracy of the FIGC that has not been able to follow or, better, anticipate a problem that they knew would hinder the work of the Great Clubs. Let's see the reasons.

Read more: Women's Football Development, the big Professional Clubs blocked by bureaucracy

It was Valeria Pirone, ChievoVerona Valpo striker, who represented women's football last Thursday 4 April at the draw for the Football Tournament of the Universiade Napoli 2019. The native player of Torre del Greco boasts the highest number of appearances with the Neapolitan jersey and was chosen as the female testimonial of this multidisciplinary biennial event, reserved for university athletes from all over the world.

Read more: Valeria Pirone female testimonial at the Universiade Napoli 2019

Rating: 5 / 5

In recent times the declarations of some well-known and less well-known "characters" have been causing a sensation and shame, seeking, perhaps, more attention, always ready to release unhappy (anti) sports bars on women. Carlo Tavecchio remains the undisputed leader of sexist illiteracy.
Without giving them other visibility and satisfaction, after careful consideration, I want to write my feelings and my disappointment in front of certain habits that belong, in my opinion, only to a part of the football world.

Read more: Men's soccer, the last bastion of Italian sexism ?!

Beyond the result. The 24 March 2019 is a historic date, indelible in the hearts and minds of all female soccer athletes. Yesterday a whole movement enjoyed, together with the 40 thousand of Allianz Stadium, the victory of women's football.
Thanks to the foresight of the Juventus football club that opened the doors of the Stadium and allowed, to the stupendous public of female sport, to gather in a large stadium and to unleash, in silence, its liberating outburst of happiness and satisfaction after so many years, too many, of disappointments and false promises .
Even in this case, Juventus FC was needed.

Read more: A great party with only one defeat: the ACF Fiorentina of Della Valle and Mencucci

Rating: 4 / 5

Rose Reilly, former Scottish footballer of the 70 and 80 years, is in these days in Italy where she is shooting a report for the BBC about her footballing background in our country.
At a Hotel in Milan he met another “race bomber” like Carolina Morace and other former comrades in Reggio Emilia at the Mapei Stadium: Betty Vignotto and Viola Langella and, at the Armando Picchi Stadium in Iesolo, the former referee Sante Zaza who has directed many matches she played in Italy.

Read more: I present to you Rose Reilly, formerly the great Scottish bomber!

Rating: 5 / 5

The commanders change but indifference is always the same.
In the environment of women's football it was known for some time of the intention of the CT of the National Under 19 Sbardella of summon the athletes for the qualifying round at the European Championships from Wednesday 27 despite the fact that for Saturday the 30 is scheduled the third last day of Serie A.

Read more: Company and National Under 19 penalized by the indifference of the FIGC?

The world of women's football cries Cora Canetta, on Friday the Balerna player left us, she had long fought against a duodenum tumor and all the complications that it entails.
She left only 27 years, in the past she had worn the shirt of the Swiss national team, also taking part in the European Under 21, before joining Balerna she had played with Rapid Lugano and Zurich, she will be remembered for her great strength of will, his smile and his sympathy.

Read more: Cora Canetta, a symbol of women's football in Ticino, has died out