The women's team of Ukraine holds a successful season in the League of Nations, having won three victories in four matches, and leads its group. And when exactly from our country the revival of women's football in the USSR began, although in the Union it was first forbidden and ridiculed. After all, the sport for the Communist Party was, first of all, by the method of political struggle and the way to prove the advantage of “decaying capitalism”, and since female euros did not exist until 1984, they did not want to raise football players and did not want to educate the football players.
For the appearance and development of female football, the British should be thanked, who were the first to defend their right to drive a leather ball along with men. It is believed that in 1894. The first women's football club British Ladies appeared in England. His founder, activist of movement for equal rights, Nelly Hudson admitted that she organized a team with a firm intention to prove to the world that women are not just decorative creatures from whom there is no priest and who are trying to present them to men.
A surge of popularity fell on the second decade of the 20th century, when during the First World War women in England replaced men not only in factories and factories, but also on a green lawn. In 1917, one of the most famous teams in the history of women's football Dick, Kerr Ladies appeared in Lancashir. And from training between work, players quickly moved to full -fledged matches, collecting crowds of onlookers.
Dick, Kerr Ladies, one of the first began to play as men-in short shorts and long-sleeve t-shirts and ran back the first international match with France in 1920. However, the war ended, the men returned and in 1921 the British Football Association decided to open the way back to them to stadiums, who forbade girls to play in their fields with a wording for 50 years: "
In the early 70s, when the influence of the ban by the Britain, women's football began the second wind not only on Albion, but also around the world, in particular in the USSR. The epicenters of its development in the Union became Ukraine and the Baltic countries. But women's clubs had a semi -legal status and existed even without the help of the state.
However, in 1971, about 25 thousand spectators came to the match between the teams of Kharkov and Vilnius. And the next year, the Valentina Tereshkova Cup held in Dnepropetrovsk, in which, in addition to the Dnieper, football players from Moscow, Riga, Kharkov, Uzhgorod, Kyiv and Donetsk took part.
Women's competitions at the Torpedo stadium caused a huge excitement. The Arena for 10,000 spectators was packed in a pound for matches of local " But after the game, one of the workers \? Unnatural!
The man see did not like the appearance of the football players. Like, one braid dangles, and the other " He also worried that after such loads, falls and getting the ball into the lower abdomen, the athlete could not have children. In general, in his opinion, women's football is not a sport, but a mockery of the body.
And the head of the Federation of Sports Medicine of the USSR, Doctor of Sciences Nina Graevskaya, who stated that women's football was inappropriate, responded to the mocking letter of this employee.. Indeed, in her opinion, he negatively affects not only on the nervous system of girls, but also dies to danger to the whole body.
And a month later, the USSR State Committee for Sports completely banned women's football and a number of sports for girls, including boxing and fighting. And they justified such humiliation by the fact that these species harm women's health.
And only in the 80s, when women's football acquired the status of an official sport and the European championships and the Olympic Games loomed ahead, they began to move in the union. The country urgently needed the national team, but there was no one to collect it with. Therefore, football players decided to make other sports from representatives of other sports, in particular athletics and hockey on the grass.
Only no one wanted to train girls, understanding the whole complexity of their task. Only Oleg Lapshin agreed.
" At first they mastered the equipment, then they worked on tactics - I literally led them by the hand, showed where to be during the defense, where when attacking. It is useless to quarrel them.
Information about the creation of the national team in the USSR reached a journalist from Czechoslovakia Olga Chakrakova, who invited Soviet girls to the Cup of the local magazine " The Soviet magazine "
Therefore, the " There were those who first came to training after work. And worked at the factory or in the factory. There was no question of any professional contracts.
As the football players later recalled, they could pay for the victory - up to five dollars. And it happened that some teams did not even have money for a visiting match, and the girls had to pay for the right to play football from their pockets.
The official debut championship of the USSR took place in 1990, and the Ukrainian club " In the match for " The "
Of course, it was very far from professional sports. Most girls were registered at enterprises in cities where clubs were based, with a salary of about 120 rubles, and they could receive 50 rubles for victory on the field.
" There was a sports complex, one of the best in Ukraine then. In the beginning we lived in terrible conditions - in a hostel with a common toilet. Then we were given apartments, small families in small -apartment houses. It was very cool, because then people stood in line for housing, ”said the defender of Niva Irina Vanat later.
" When we got the result, the Republican team of Ukraine was created on the basis of our team, ”Irina noted.
Their own teams gathered then in Donetsk and Kyiv. Among the favorites of the first championship of the USSR there were Kiev "
" Perhaps he then looked at Europe, in the future. Who knows what he was persecuted, but we were absolutely satisfied. I can’t complain, the salaries were higher than the average: at least 150 rubles, plus some bonuses-and it came out for some 200-250, ”Larisa Pogorelova told Dynamo Suprikal..
In 1990, the female Dynamo was invited to the official tournament in France. And the people of Kiev surprised everyone when they won. However, immediately after the return, they lost the decisive match of the Niva Championship from Baryshevka and ended the season in second place in its zone, and in the playoffs for "
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Former player of the USSR national team, a native of Chernigova Natalya Avdonchenko said that almost all the players had short haircuts.
" Nobody usually applauded makeup, except that the eyelashes will paint lips and lips. There was such a Niva mascara - you spit in a box and paint. When it was raining, they did not paint. T -shirts were wide, ran in this form, like cabinets. Adidas saw good shape and panties only in the national team, ”Natalya recalled.
The USSR national team was officially created in 1990 under the leadership of Lapshin, but a year later collapsed with the Union. Although during this time I managed to spend 46 matches, winning only 11 of them.