#I support morocco first and foremost both with the nt and wnt

[mchiti]

I thought for a while about making this post, because I do think praising male footballers for doing the bare minimum - supporting women and wnts in this world cup - is definitely not necessary today. But the reason I'm writing this is because, being a diaspora kid, I can compare two different situations (morocco, my country, and italy, my other country) and let me tell you, I'm quite surprised by the difference. Or maybe I'm not.

I guess if you follow the morocco nt you've seen a lot of moroccan players celebrating the wnt historical achievement today. In the span of 10 minutes - from hakim to romain to amine to jawad etc etc - they all started posting about it. To be fair, the support has been there since the start of the tournament. I love it but I'm not praising them for it: I do however think it's necessary to see. Because living in Italy I'm also familiar with the italian football scene, and I can guarantee the support for the italian wnt was like, 0. Some very timid sign of support by a few players from the old guard (less than a few, to be honest). I don't think I've seen anyone from the current nt posting about it. [I'd be happy to correct myself if I missed something, but I really don't think so, and I follow many of them too].

It's ironic, because then you go online and all you see is italians making fun of Nouhaila for being an hijabi and they act like sudden feminists and supporters of their idea of women's emancipation. They are also the ones who make fun of the italian wnt all the time, though. They insulted them since the very first day. Here you go the so called progressive white men. Italy only bought the rights for a bunch of games to be aired on tv. The media coverage is close to 0. Male players don't care either. The federation don't promote shit. And it's ironic how different it is from Morocco, and how much safer, as a woman who loves this sport, I feel in following my country's football (Morocco, only Morocco). The fact that our boys are supporting our girls is not a coincidence but a product of a clearly different way of thinking, it's a strong idea of pride and community that clearly transcend genders, other than real investments and a strong projects from which both male and female football can benefit from.

So, while I do respect all of you praising Morocco for being, once again, the "cinderella" of the tournament, I also ask you to take into accounts we're definitely way ahead some of the other european countries here. Don't think of Morocco as a less progressed country in this, because I can tell you we aren't.