Mom, Dad… I’m going to be a referee
Sporty, determined, ready for a challenge. These are faces of women who decided to pursue a passion and live the sport not as players but as professional technicians. These are just some of the women who decided to work as referees. They started this career at a very young age and today they are proud to have reached important professional levels, contributing to determine a change in the conception of perceiving some jobs as “gender job”.
Beside the profession, they have in common passion for sport,determination to pursue dreams and the will to pass on the interest intechnical profession in the field of sport, to other women. It’s still very low the number of women who undertake this career, although initiatives to raise awareness of these profession have increased. But certainly their experience will serve as an example to many others in the future.
To get inspired or just simply for curiosity, you can hear two short interview made to
Marijana Veljovic, a gold-badge female tennis chair umpire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZlxjkqWUjA and to
Guadalupe Porras – the first spanish women to referee the final of Copa del Rey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W5Oy1onl9M
