Women’s soccer. Today Serie A starts again live on La7 The 24-year-old from Istrana wants to lead the Giallorossi to the title
the protagonist
If you have to indicate the name of an athlete who is a symbol of Italian women’s football, she is undoubtedly one of the first that comes to mind. There was her in the national team of the city Milena Bertolini who at the 2019 World Cup made Italy fall in love with pink football, she was there to enjoy a few months later the award for best Serie A player (sharing it with a “certain” Cristiano Ronaldo) . The reference is to Manuela Giugliano, midfielder of Italy and Roma. And the name of the 24-year-old from Istrana is back in the news for the restart of the top pink championship, the “go” between today and tomorrow: the Gazzetta dello Sport has included her among “the four sisters”, among the four athletes-cover of the new season. Giugliano to fight for the Scudetto with “his” Rome, in a nine-month long contest that will see her face off against Cristiana Girelli’s Juventus, Gloria Marinelli’s Inter and Valentina Giacinti’s Milan. Yes, because an already brilliant career still lacks the joy of the Scudetto. Thus, in the third season in the Giallorossi, the Italian director will try them all to guarantee herself the best trophy. After the year stopped by Covid, put aside the following year of growth (and embellished by the conquest of the first Italian Cup of his career), now comes the best.
And the beauty coincides with the inclusion of Roma among the main contenders, on the long wave of the enthusiasm generated in Trigoria by the landing of Mourinho. The Friedkin property is ambitious, the project includes the qualitative leap of the female team. Roma’s debut will be today at 17.30 (with live TV on La7, which has bet on pink Serie A) in the Empoli den, the first step of a season that will offer various reasons of interest. And on the plate there are not only the concrete ambitions of the high ranking. It is enough to remember that in the new Serie A championship there will be the historic first time of the derby of the Capital, thanks to the promotion of Lazio led by former Azzurri Carolina Morace. As for more technical aspects, Giugliano will pair in the Giallorossi midfield with the strong Brazilian ex Milan Thaisa Moreno. Pure quality and industrial quantity.
Yes, the national team has all the credentials to add depth to a palmarès that, before the last Italian Cup, recorded “only” the Super Cup raised with Brescia in 2017. The dream is to take Roma to the top possible. –
Mattia Toffoletto