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Take note England. How is this for a neat idea, New Zealand? And France. And... well, practically everyone.
It seems that - before and after the final, which was attended the Presidents of the Spanish RFU and Galacian regional RFU - Spanish players and supporters staged a demo on the pitch demanding equal funding with the men! Even the Spanish captain - Marina Bravo (on the right, third from the bottom).
That would be fun to see emulated next time England play at Twickenham...
From what I can work out (and I would be delighted if any Spanish speakers could correct this) the demonstrators point out that the Spanish men's team had three times longer to prepare for their European championship this year. Why? The bottom line also asks for equal levels of funding for men and women.
And - especially given their relative levels of success of the men's and women's teams - who can argue with this?
PS - I have now been sent a translation:
MANDADO [the President of the Spanish RFU]: Enough is enough!
Women: 19 days training together
Men: 60 days training together
RFU: Why?
Money for everyone
Women: 19 days training together
Men: 60 days training together
RFU: Why?
Money for everyone
Some great pictures from the final have also appeared.
You're right, John. The banner says, more or less:
ReplyDeleteMANDADO [surname of the President of the Spanish RFU]: enough is enough!
Women: 19 days training together
Men: 60 days training together
RFU: Why?
Money for everyone
After the final Spain's coach, Inés Etxegibel, declared, 'it's a pity what happened today [the loss of the match], but maybe we were trusting it to chance, like we did last year. We arrived with very few training days and England is on a far higher plane. Our resources are scarce and nothing is done to improve women's rugby'.
'When there's no interest, everything is left on the hands of a group of players who sacrifice everyday to maintain rugby with passion'.
More pictures here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=100002335029564
http://europeorugby.blogspot.com/p/fotos.html