Published on January 18, 2025 at 5:40 p.m. / Modified on January 18, 2025 at 6:33 p.m. 4 mins. reading
Football and Women
In 1971, the Vaudois sports journalist Raymond Pittet published his most famous work, Le Football et les Hommes, a vast impressionist fresco depicting the most popular ball game in all its nuances, or almost: women were only thought of as mothers, wives or supporters. In 2025, Le Temps adapts its humanism to the times in this weekly column ahead of the Women’s European Championship that Switzerland will host in July.
Referees are often asked where their vocation comes from. In many cases, the word is too strong. I know fewer people who started out of idealism than to earn a little money during their studies, or out of a proud conviction of being able to do better than the donkeys they harassed throughout their matches. But most, at first, grab the whistle simply to be of service.
Déborah Anex and Laura Mauricio started this way because their respective clubs were looking for good opportunities to fulfill their obligations to the responsible associations. There is no compelling desire among the 32-year-old Vaudoise and the 28-year-old Fribourgeoise to lead others, to enforce regulations or to feminize the “profession” (which only has 122 women out of 5,200 referees in Switzerland). No, originally just a “why not”.
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