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"Sell out warning! Think you know football? While the Lionesses may have FINALLY made women’s footie palpable to curmudgeoned legions of men-folk, 50 years ago 100,000 ecstatic fans cheered an international delegate of top female athletes in Mexico. Come watch the shocking and fascinating story of the tournament FIFA tried to bury forever - cinematic justice is served! "
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A event held at The Cube on Tuesday 26th March. The event starts at 20:00.
Directed by: James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay, 2023, 1h 31min, Certificate: PG
Tue 26 March // 20:00
Tickets: £5
It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s sun-drenched Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match. A fawning media treat the players like rock stars. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history. But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it.
This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both FIFA and domestic football associations around the world, this event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.
Entry requirements: 18+
Tue 26 March // 20:00
Tickets: £5
It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s sun-drenched Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match. A fawning media treat the players like rock stars. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history. But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it.
This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both FIFA and domestic football associations around the world, this event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.
Entry requirements: 18+
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