The #1 record holder for attendance at a women\u2019s sporting event in history was a gauntlet fought on and off the field, a feat you likely haven\u2019t heard of. It\u2019s Copa 71, the first, though unofficial, women\u2019s soccer World Cup. Co-directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsey\u00a0and executive produced by tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams and soccer star Alex Morgan, \u201cCopa 71\u201d chronicles the fight for women\u2019s right to play soccer and the revolutionary 1971 grassroots tournament that followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCopa 71\u201d comprises interviews with the players and archival footage and photographs that tell not only the overarching story of how the tournament came to be but the individual women\u2019s relationships with the sport. Like many things, when these women were growing up, soccer was considered\u00a0for men only. Mexican player Silvia Zaragoza describes playing in secret as a child, knowing her father would hit her if she was caught because it was not \u201chow girls should behave.\u201d Italian player Elena Schiavo chronicles a memory of beating up the schoolboys who wouldn\u2019t let her play, and averse to a life of \u201cmarriage, kids, and cooking,\u201d English player Carol Wilson joined the Air Force instead, saying she thought, \u201cI bet if I join the Air Force, I\u2019ll be able to play football there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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