#Witness of another world 1972 professional#

In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, women’s soccer can be shackled by lack of financing or conservative attitudes in some areas, while making new pushes in others when there are official efforts to develop the game. “This … makes me want to work harder to show girls that they can achieve great things.” “The qualification of the women’s team for the finals at the Africa Cup of Nations, the media momentum and the wide audience that followed … breathed new life into women’s soccer in Morocco,” said Khadija Illa, president of the national women’s soccer league. It marked a watershed moment in perceptions for many, soccer officials and players say. Morocco’s 2022 hosting of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations drew large numbers of spectators and catapulted the country to the upcoming global tournament. Last year’s run galvanized support from other Arab countries. The national team’s upcoming Women’s World Cup appearance follows their male counterpart’s history making feat as the first African or Arab team to reach the World Cup semifinals. He added, though, that not everyone he knows shares his enthusiasm due to conservative views or religious beliefs against women wearing shorts. He said the Lionesses’ achievement “shows how women’s soccer has progressed” in the North African country and has filled him with joy.

“Sports don’t differentiate between genders.” “I teach (my daughters) confidence, not fear,” said Idriss Benazzouza, Aliae’s father. Morocco’s national team, dubbed the Atlas Lionesses, will make its debut this month at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the first to qualify from the Arab world, where many are wild for the men’s game. During the game, she would make her way to the front of the stands for a better view.Īfter years largely in the margins, Moroccan women’s soccer is gaining new ground, capturing the imagination of some girls like Aliae, winning the hearts and minds of more parents, and chipping away at a traditional view of soccer as a men’s game. A favorite of hers, Fatima Tagnaout, who plays for Morocco’s national women’s team and for the armed forces team known as ASFAR, wrapped her arms around Aliae as they posed for photos. One young fan in the stands was excited regardless.ĭressed in a jersey reading “Morocco” in Arabic, 5-year-old Aliae Benazzouza descended to the pitch to meet the players.

#Witness of another world 1972 professional#

His new film, My Imaginary Country, was selected at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.RABAT, Morocco (AP) - The game was sparsely attended it was midweek and the match wasn’t going to be a nail-biter: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan national women’s professional league opponent 7-0. He presides over the International Documentary Festival in Santiago de Chile (FIDOCS), which he created in 1997. After Pinochet’s coup d’état, he left Chile and moved to France, but remained very attached to his country and its history. This film is the foundation of his cinema. Between 19, he directed The Battle of Chile, a five-hour trilogy about Salvador Allende’s period of government and its fall. His documentaries have screened in many festivals and received international recognition. He studied at the Official School of Cinematographic Art in Madrid. Patricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile.

The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.” While in formal terms it’s more of a standard, reportage-based documentary than any of his recent essays, it is also the rarest of projects: one in which a venerated member of an older generation of political activists communicates a fervent admiration for his younger counterparts and a deep, grateful optimism for the future they are building. Patricio Guzmán, who was forced into exile following Pinochet’s 1973 seizure of power and the ascendancy of that military junta, returns again to his home country in order to bear witness to mass protests of 2019-2021: “One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution.