Monica Garruccio spends her evenings training and her weekends playing football, for Serie Achampions, Torres, no less. In Italy, a country not known for its forward-thinkingtake on gender roles, Monica and Antonio begin to look like a more distinctive couple.
In Italy, as in the UK, football's long heritage as a sport for men has made it tough for women players to become anything more than a notionally entertainingsideshow. (In the US, of course, where there is only a short history of men playing 'soccer', the women have had huge success.)
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| | Glossary | | Serie A | | 意大利足球甲级联赛(意甲)(注:英超 Premier League;德甲 Bundesliga;西甲 Spanish Primera Liga;法甲 Ligue 1) | |
| | forward-thinking (adj.) | | 思想超前的 | |
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