The history of women’s football at Sound & Vision

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REGIO – On the occasion of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Sound & Vision yesterday opened a short-lived presentation on the past and present of women’s football.

From the oldest cinematographic images (1933) of Dutch women’s football to images of the recent successes of the Orange Lionesses (winner of the European Championship 2017 and finalist of the World Cup 2019). The mini-exhibition was created in collaboration with The Memory of the Netherlands and sports historian Jurryt van de Vooren.

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In recent years, the popularity of women’s football in our country has exploded with the victory of the European Championship in their own country in 2017. The final, which the Orange Lionesses won 4-2 against Denmark in Enschede, was watched by 4.1 million people. There was more media attention, Orange games have always been shown live ever since and the stadiums are full. Today’s most important actors are role models for young girls. This has not always been the case, as the museum presentation shows, among other things, how the sport has faced opposition and lack of recognition for years.

The presentation in the Media Museum shows the development of a century of women’s football in the Netherlands. In addition to moving images from the Sound & Vision archive, various attributes also return, such as the plastic football boots of Gien van Maanen, the first goalkeeper of the unofficial Dutch women’s team in 1956. This is only in 1971 that the KNVB officially recognized the women’s team as a national team.