Irritated Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi: “It happens all over the world.”

Irritated Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi: “It happens all over the world.”

Reached by Corriere dello Sport, Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi traced the origins of her passion for soccer: “When I was six years old, I was already crazy about it, like all sports that in general excited me, left me spellbound. The Olympics is the top. Of course, I was already not thinking about being a referee. And finally the World Cup, 1994, I was very small and then the 1998 World Cup. There my passion for Baggio was born and that jersey that mom bought for me at the flea market, unofficial, but the most precious of all.”

Being a woman unfortunately still entails some difficulties in the soccer world: “To motherhood right now I don’t think about it. In the future I would like to, now maybe I am not ready. But often we are faced with a choice, not imposed by someone, but being sportswomen, we tend to put off family and children. Even on this one could take a step forward.”

“I don’t like the constant judgment that we women are more exposed to, whether you are reserved or outgoing. It happens all over the world, not in the AIA or in soccer. If this is then brought into a ‘male’ world like soccer, I feel that I often have to be careful about things. I feel like a pioneer, the last relay runner. The last one because I have now carried the baton all the way to the big leagues, that’s the goal now,” concluded Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi.