COPA 71

Special presentation on Friday, 04.07., 19:00, camera

Introduction by Rebecca Smith on the development of women's soccer in Germany and Heidelberg.

Rebecca Smith is a soccer lecturer and research assistant in the Department of Sport Psychology at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science - University of Heidelberg

Afterwards at 21:00: Live broadcast: Germany - Poland (first match of the German team at the European Championship)

GB 2023 | Director: Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine | 91 min. | FSK 0
Documentary film

August 1971: Mexico City is the venue for a huge soccer spectacle in which teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy meet. More than 100,000 fans transform the historic Azteca Stadium into a place of excitement game after game, with television coverage throughout. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international soccer history. But this tournament is unlike anything that has gone before, because there are only women on the pitch. It is the Copa '71, the first unofficial women's soccer World Cup. Rejected by FIFA and the national soccer associations, this historic event was pushed out of the annals of soccer. But now a documentary film recalls this tournament, which took place more than ten years before the first official Women's World Cup, and finally puts the players of the time, the charismatic pioneers of their sport, in the spotlight.