Great piece on women's football in Peru and how it is linked to land reform and women's struggle for a place in society on the Global Game blog.
http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2010/01/peruvian-women-in-fulbito-andino-find-light-in-the-darkness/
What stuck me most about this story is one of the pictures, of the Peruvian girls juggling a ball in her skirt and pink uniform top and the other girls watching. Their uniforms, even the smiles on their face as they watch this girl juggle, reminded me of a picture I took in a locker room in Rabat. The girl was juggling and another watching her. The picture has such a feeling of similarity, parallel worlds on the same track. The quote to from one of the women in the article too reminded me of so many things I have often heard here..."The football world beyond our mountains we do not know. We do not know who plays there, who are the best players, what they wear and the rules that everyone follows. We only play in order to have some happy moments, to have fun. Of technique and tactics we do not understand much. But we play with our hearts, with all our will. And that brings us together into a single force. That is football for us."
What else do we need football to be. Something so universal yet for these women, something so isolated, their football, in their mountains, with their rules, their happy moments.
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