Tomorrow the appointment promoted by the Open association: “I’ll give you Qatar” is the name of the project that mimics the last World Cup and the rights denied to the Lgbtqia+ community
The idea is simple, and at the same time sadly unapplied: football belongs to everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. And instead, especially in the mainstream, the prejudice according to which football is a sport for men, not for young ladies, persists. Or the abstruse theory that the presence of a gay athlete in a men’s team locker room would be a problem. If Jankto’s fresh coming out, convincedly supported by his Sparta Prague, was a very powerful worldwide commercial, there are those in the area who work every day to return the ball to its vocation: through its universal language, what better tool to include people? With this spirit, Open Milano Asd launched the “I’ll give you Qatar” project, in open dissent with the latest edition of the World Cup, amidst discrimination by the LGBTQIA+ community and the exploitation of migrant workers.
At Comasina
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The first appointment is scheduled for tomorrow: an entire day-long tournament on the fields of Sport Promotion Comasina in Milan, with the sponsorship of Municipio 9 of the Municipality. An opportunity not only to include people discriminated against for their gender and sexual orientation in sport, but also to affirm a strong conviction: everyone can play football, and all together, hetero, gay, bisexual, male, female , transgender, non-binary, etc etc. At 10 there will be a football quadrangular: the Acet association will form a team of transgender athletes and will challenge the teams of Ladysoccer, an association that promotes the movement of women’s football, YouSport, a reality attentive to the issue of migration, and the Municipality of Milan . At 12, a 5-a-side football tournament will start in the “open” formula, i.e. without gender and age limits, with the collaboration of Uisp Milano: 20 teams from all over Italy will be at the starting line, including those from the “un calcio all’omofobia” in Turin, Bologna, Florence and Rome, as well as a French representative from Lyon. During the event, the Cig Arcigay Milano info-point will be present, aimed at LGBTQIA+ people and their needs.
Upcoming events
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“I give it to you Qatar is the showcase of the football we want to play: a football made by people for people, a football that values uniqueness and demolishes mistrust, a football open to all people who love the game of football” , says Riccardo Pappalardo, president of the Open. The project will also develop in the coming months. Yes, because tomorrow’s event is not the only one, as the secretary Davide Bombini explains: “The next appointments will be an 11-a-side football exhibition for Milano Pride, and the “New Five” will start in May, a championship that exists already in Turin and which is aimed in particular at non-binary and transgender people. We strongly believe that people excluded from sports circuits must become protagonists of their own lives, speak again and, of course, by kicking a ball again”.
March 24 – 09:51
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