FC Barcelona, a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, is once again commemorating International Women's Day on 8 March to highlight the visibility of women in the sporting world. To this end, the club gave the midline of the course a special meaning, transforming it into a symbol representing women for the first time before.
Accompanied by the slogan "The central circle is not bounded, the concentric union is united", Barca's action is simple but full of meaning: in its many stadiums, it draws a Venus symbol symbolizing women, which consists of a central circle and the shape of a cross connecting the bottom. To this end, the club cleverly made use of the middle circle of the course and added a horizontal line perpendicular to the middle line.
Camp Nou, John Cruyff Stadium, Piper Training Base and Palau Beraugrana Training Ground will all be decorated with this logo on March 8. Not only that, but Alesia Putras (women's soccer team), Pedri (men's soccer team) and Alex Avrinese (basketball team) are also involved in the event on behalf of the club. The three Barca players "broke into" camp nou, John Cruyff and Palau Beraugrana to help set up the pitches, which they also hoped to raise awareness and play a role in promoting women's development in sport.
On the other hand, on such a special occasion, the event was also taken to the streets of Barcelona. The façade of the building, located on the city's main thoroughfare such as Via Lee-Tanna, is also covered with the same female logo as Camp Nou. Thousands of people pass by every day, and the spirit conveyed from barca's various club stadiums is widely disseminated.
FC Barcelona is unwavering in its commitment to promoting the place of women in sport and society. The club's day-and-night efforts to do so, as well as its commitment to women's sports and women's football, are testament to this, and these promises date back more than 50 years.
As part of this commitment, the Club has established an Equality and Inclusion Unit in recent months to promote inclusion and diversity of culture, function, generation, gender and sexual orientation in parts of the Barça family. In addition, the club is constantly improving the structure and services it provides to female athletes, as exemplified by the new natural turf field invested in the Gamper training base, which is used by the Barça women's football team so that they can carry out all their training in the best possible way.
Not only that, but the testimony of two great moments this summer once again underscores the club's vision for women's sport. The first is the Barça women's team and the men's team joining the Gaper Cup to show themselves to the fans in this historic match at the John Cruyff Stadium. This was followed by the first time that the La Masia Academy, where Barca gained global recognition for its youth model, opened its doors to nine female players in the youth group. And on March 30, a new milestone will begin in order to demonstrate the club's commitment to women's football development, when women's football will enter camp Nou for the first time under the gaze of spectators in the stands, facing Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. In addition, the club has launched a documentary series "Matchday- Queens of The Pitch", which offers an exclusive internal perspective for its history-making 2020/21 season.
It is worth mentioning that the current 2021/22 away shirt also incorporates a design that promotes women's empowerment. It is dominated by a mixture of blue and red, purple, which usually symbolizes people's struggle for gender equality. In order to highlight the club's commitment and commitment to the development of women's sports, Barca also printed the slogan "Tots Units Fem For a" (closely united) in the team song, which was originally in the Catalan masculine form of Spanish, on one side of the shirt.
The club's support for women's sport is also reflected in the 600 female athletes: they wear Barça jerseys in the club's various amateur sports (women's basketball, women's volleyball, figure skating, rugby, hockey). Among them, basketball players from Bar a CBS are the top players in their leagues, and they are fighting to advance to the highest level of leagues. Last Sunday, they made history, playing women's basketball for the first time with Alcovendas at palau Beraugrana Stadium.
Women's sport is one of the pillars of Barca's unique identity, emerging from FC Barcelona's world-famous motto "More than just a club". The club is centred around the concept of "more than just gender", which is not only followed in all its activities, but also underlines its commitment to women's football and the importance of women in sport.