The Italian Lucchese, a soccer team from Serie C, the third category of women’s soccer, stopped paying and excluded the Italian goalkeeper Alice Pignagnoli since she announced her pregnancy.
The 34-year-old player, born in the city of Reggio Emilia (Emilia Romagna, north) and exporter of Milan in Serie A, informed her club in mid-October that she was pregnant with her second child.
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Lucchese’s reaction has not been, far from it, what was expected by the goal, which He felt like an “old toy” because of the treatment and has denounced the situation on his social networks.
“They have been very difficult months. Being away from the field is, for me, always a full-fledged duel. So, contrary to my expectations, meeting a hostile club like Lucchese, which harmed me as a woman, mother and athlete, created a deep wound. I felt alone, useless, incapable, an old toy that had to be thrown away, ”she revealed on her Instagram account.
When she commented that she was pregnant, the club did not take long to take drastic measures with the player.
“The coach and the girls were fantastic, but the club told me that they would no longer pay me despite what was written in the contract and little by little they began to exclude me from the team”, he said in an interview with ‘Repubblica’ published this Wednesday.
“First they asked me to return the sports equipment despite my contract until the end of the season, then to free up my place to sleep and they kicked me off the team without saying a word. If it was really necessary to exclude me, and I don’t understand why, they could at least say something, since I played two months for them and I did my part, ”he added.
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A radically opposite attitude to the one she experienced with her first pregnancy, when she was a member of Cesena, in Serie B: “I had just arrived there two months ago. I found out that she was pregnant. The club treated me like a human being, they told me that for them I was an important player and that if I wanted I could stay close to the team, ”she commented.
Pignagnoli’s contract ends on June 30 and cannot be terminated before, since the rule that provided for the interruption of the contract of a pregnant athlete was eliminated. Lucchese, who has not spoken, should take over the salary until January and, from there, the maternity fund of the Italian Football Federation.
