to Strike or not? Fight back or be satisfied? So clearly it is not so easy. The Viola Calligaris self, player of Valencia and defender for the Swiss national team says. The players Union in Spain is calling for the female Football player of the highest League is entitled to a minimum wage of 15’000 Euro per season. Coincidentally, the timing of this requirement is: The women’s football in Spain is experiencing a flight of fancy.

There was, for example, this 17. March 2019. “Insane”, it was, says the 23-Year-old, as she was marched with her teammates to the impressive Wanda Metropolitano, the home of Atlético Madrid. The men – normally. But for once, for the top of the fight against Barcelona, were allowed to play the women there. You have waited a long time – and not only them: 60’739 spectators came, never a women’s club game attracted more visitors.

you played in front of 48’000 spectators

Calligaris’ parents were sitting in the stadium, you have yourself 90 minutes on the bench. Nevertheless, the national player shines over the whole face, if you are told by the 2:0 victory. Or from the Match at the end of January, when she was allowed to play in front of the 48’000 spectators in the almost-filled San Mamés, Bilbao.

“That we should be as women, that’s crass,” she says, and expresses two things: gratitude – and that is the important to be aware of the women’s football still has. Nervous you was just the beginning, as in 65. Minute, came on as a substitute, and then you have the mood to get carried away with: “It’s nice to see how well rivals can celebrate.”

In the thing

brings together So it is separated at the moment in women’s football in Spain: in the colors, in the case of combines. If necessary, up to the Extreme. At the weekend, the strike is to begin, but it isn’t obvious yet. Whether the championship will actually be exposed to, will be decided in the next few days. Around twenty meetings between the Clubs and the Union ended without agreement.

photo: Andrea payer

“We get E-Mails, but it is complicated to follow all the points,” said Calligaris. Of course, it should be in the Team topic, “but to have a clear opinion on this, is difficult. We get the club info, and others of the Union.” The Football stand between the fronts. “You discuss about us, but we are not able to follow these discussions, big,” says the Obwaldnerin with Italian roots.

A great honour

Distressing the Situation was not yet, says Calligaris. Anyway, she’s happy in Spain, even after moving in the summer. After two championship titles in two years, she moved from Madrid to Valencia. An “interesting project” attracted the earlier YB-player in the South-East of Spain. That she lives now near the sea, is a nice Bonus. Especially now she has a new role in the Team: In the case of Atlético Calligaris was mostly a complement player, now it belongs to the trunk of a jury, it was even the best player of the 5. Round chosen.

The time in Madrid, it retains, in spite of the limited minutes of the game in good memory. There, she learned Spanish, started a correspondence course in Economics – but most of all they finally found their place on the football field. To YB-times she felt even in Central midfield and most comfortable in the national team, they played with the exception of the goalie position almost everywhere. However, in the case of Atlético, they had other plans.

The skills of a trump card

it was converted in the last two years for the defender. “Now I have a fixed Position in which I can improve myself,” she says to the new task. Previously, Calligaris was because of their Versatility for your Trainer is a rewarding player, but she had trouble with it: “It plays on many of the items can be fixed, but not properly.”

your change will also help the national team. An “exciting Option” is Calligaris for assistant coach Marisa Wunderlin in the interior defense. Especially against opponents such as the Romanians today is the neat build-up play, the skilled midfielder was a trump card.

Central to their role in the SFV is supposed to be-selection in the future, when it comes to Wunderlin. Calligaris apart around the set more and more intense with the game and the Drum. In Valencia she made the after a few months, to guide the player. Although you don’t have in the national team is still the same task, but how Wunderlin says: “she prepares.”

Created: 12.11.2019, 11:10 PM