In her younger years, the football-loving Lucia Barbuto often had to field questions from members of the opposite sex, who doubted the fact that a female could possibly know anything about the game. “Oh really?” they would say. “Then explain the offside rule to us. Tell us who wears the No.9 jersey for Boca Juniors or the No.5 for River.”
“To begin with I’d take the time to answer, just to show them that I knew,” said Barbuto, the only female president of an Argentinian first division club, in conversation with FIFA.com.
“But I grew tired of it,” she added. “If I couldn’t test their knowledge, then why could they test mine? They should be sitting there now, thinking: ‘That girl was right. She did know about football’. It doesn’t happen to me now. Either they gave up with me or they just don’t do it to women anymore. I hope so anyway.”
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