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In 1933 the first women’s football team in Italy was founded by some men’s football female fans, eager to transform their passive fan supporting faith to more active sporting activity. Female fandom was a sociological fact, during the Fascist Ventennio (1922-1943): the regime didn’t ban the entrance to the Italian stadiums, so girls were free to attend the male football’s matches, and they did it, above all in the more developed and open-minded cities such as Milan, Turin, Bologna, Naples. Fighting against a lot of prejudices, they thought they had the right to support their football idols such as Giuseppe Meazza and Angelo Schiavio: they depicted themselves as expert, enthusiastic, ladylike female fans. They were the umpteenth incarnation of the donna nuova ‘new women’ of the Fascist ideology, different both from the last generation of Italian women (who didn’t attend the football stadiums) and from the decadent 1920s’ model coming from abroad. |
