The national team tournament will take place in our country.
Colombia News.
The Copa América Femenina 2022, a Conmebol soccer tournament, will be held in Colombia between July 8 and 30.
The governing body of South American soccer announced yesterday in Paraguay how the two groups will be made up.
Colombia heads Group A together with Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Bolivia. The “B” is made up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Venezuela.
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✔️ The composition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina 2022 groups was announced this Thursday
✔️ The most important women’s competition at the national team level will be held in Colombia from July 08 to 30, 2022#VibraElContinente #CopaAméricaFem
— CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) April 7, 2022
It was also shown what will be the mascot of the sporting event: The dog “Alma”, a figure that has caused controversy on social networks.
It’s time to learn a little more about our beloved pet ?
Let’s go with everything, Alma! ?⚽
Chegou at the time of knowing a little more about our dear pet. ?
Let’s go with everything, Alma! ?⚽#VibraElContinente #CopaAméricaFem #VibraOContinent pic.twitter.com/A0wsESpyE5
– Copa America (@CopaAmerica) April 7, 2022
This is because in Colombia and other Latin American countries, the word “bitch” is often misused to derogatorily offend women.
However, its natural meaning is that of a female dog.
Comments
Although apparently, the participating teams did not find it “offensive” that the mascot is “a dog”, on Twitter, users have been somewhat annoyed.
Both women and men have wondered if Conmebol analyzed this detail when preparing the figure that represents the soccer event.
Who came up with it and who approved this??? ??♀️??♀️??♀️??♀️
– Andrea Bustamante (@andrebu85) April 7, 2022
Terrible mistake ? everything is because of undermining women even in these things #CopaAmericaFEM https://t.co/52EfOUlVc7
— Melissa Penalosa (@MelissaPenalos) April 7, 2022
I can’t believe that the mascot of the 1st women’s cup is a dog ?
— SYXTY-SIX (@LedeX66) April 7, 2022
It seems that they entrusted the design of the female Copa América mascot to @JBALVIN. a bitch! Sirs @CONMEBOL and @FCFSeleccionCol, sure that no woman participated in the “creative process”. I would like to read opinions of women, yes, @AnaBejaranoRG pic.twitter.com/6zcuSdRDKk
– Germán Cárdenas González (@gercargo) April 7, 2022
It is worth noting that the vast majority of opinionators do not see a problem with “Alma” being the mascot.
If you consider that the word “bitch” is offensive, the problem is yours, not, for example, the mascot of the Copa América…
It’s Alma, and she’s a bitch
(And it is much better than the World Cup, for example).
– Andrés Castro (@AndresCastro1) April 7, 2022
On the other hand, about the women’s tournament it was known that the champion team will win a juicy prize of 1,500,000 dollars and the runner-up 500,000 dollars.
Cover photo: @conmebol
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