The world of sport united to say enough to violence against women: the video of the APU with the black and white players

The women of the Juventus club thus teamed up with their male colleagues: united to raise awareness. To say stop to all forms of violence. From the physical one, of course, to the more subtle one, which finds fertile ground in general assent and indifference.

The phone vibrates: it’s him, again. On the way, a comment, yet another. Small shades of everyday normality. Small violence towards which the APU, in its entirety, has decided to act with a video published on its social channels on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. They, the women of the Juventus club, thus teamed up with their male colleagues: united to raise awareness.

To say stop to all forms of violence. From the physical one, of course, to the more subtle one, which finds fertile ground in general assent and indifference. The team of interpreters made up of the players Eva Da Pozzo, Martina Mosetti and Lucia Missanelli as well as the boys of the Italian West Nazzareno, Federico Mussini and Ethan Esposito, focused on this form of mistreatment in particular. “We wanted to focus – explains the actress, and screenwriter, Martina Mosetti – on the most common situations of violence”. From attempts at control to public humiliations; from the most veiled threats to social exclusion. “An in-depth research has helped us to understand how varied the declination of gender-based violence is, which also affects men, it must be said. Physical violence is the last step on a path that can begin in the simplest ways “. With the messages, for example, that Missanelli finds himself reading in the opening scene of the short. Or through the appreciation addressed to a Da Pozzo “in civilian clothes”. Or, again, with the exclusion of Mosetti from a basketball match on the pitch. On the Old Wild West front, the trio in front of the camera acted in the name of the male gender: first by becoming the author of the deplorable episodes described, then finding redemption in the happy ending of the clip. «Working on this project was educational and exciting. All of us, as representatives of the same company, are particularly concerned with raising awareness on the issue, especially by virtue of the large audience we are lucky enough to address “. In line with the commitment undertaken, as well as respecting the directions of the National Basketball League, also the team of coach Matteo Boniciolli, in the next meeting in front of Cantù on Sunday 28 November, will take the field wearing a symbolic red ribbon on the right shoulder of the own game uniforms.