Dogwoof has launched a new trailer for Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine’s (Le Mans: Racing is Everything, Sachin: A Billion Dreams )’COPA 71.’
It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark, and Italy have gathered at Mexico City’s sun-drenched Azteca Stadium. The tournament’s scale is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner, and crowds of over 100,000 roaring fans turn this historic stadium into a cauldron of noise match after match. A fawning media treat the players like rock stars. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international football history. But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And, likely, you’ve never even heard of it. This is Copa ‘71, the pioneering unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by the governing body and domestic football associations worldwide, this event had been sidelined in history, until now.
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An astonishing film that sheds light on the history of women’s sport and the injustices women were subjected to, the doc will be in UK & Irish cinemas from 8th March 2024.
