Copa 71

This film brought me so much joy but also left me with a sad rage. To think of where women's football could be now if it wasn't for frail male egos. It's such a well made film and all ex players involved tell the story so well, you can see how emotional they still are and what it meant to be a part of this wonderful tournament that was hidden from history. The match footage is so well restored and it felt amazing to see it on the big screen. I just wish we hadn't been denied so many years of great tournaments and a history of great players. It ended on a positive though, as someone who regularly attends matches and follows the WSL and the Lionesses passionately I feel very confident that the sport will continue to grow. It's a testament to those wonderful players in 71.

I felt that in the beginning they laid the abnormality of all women's football on a bit thick but I found that once they got that out of the way we can learn more about the players, the match and the game. That opening does tell you what they are talking about and the angle that they are approaching the story from the get go.

Which is a good angle as most everyone (in our society) would have been allowed or recommended to play a game of football in their lifetime. Even then the turn out for professional football between the sexes is a staggeringly large difference and when you combine these two factors and a apply them to 1970s with a packed stadium with all female players and no ones heard about it, that's nothing short of a head scratcher.

It's interesting that this isn't more famous as it's pretty important in terms of women's sport and the sport of football in general. I would say that this game and documentary are meant to empower other women. Although I must confess I am clueless when it comes to sport and would never have found out about this independently. I am happy to say that I have actually learned a good bit about women's sport over the course of this documentary and I am thankful for that.

This is a great documentary and a must-watch for everyone. I knew about Copa 71 before I watched the movie, but I din't know much of the details. I was crying my eyes out, out of anger and frustration.

At one point, when they interview some of the Argentinian women and they mention how little support they got from their federation, I imediately thought about last weeks news that the now active Argentinian womens team only got a banan and a sandwich for lunch at their last assembly. While progress in womens football has exploded in the last few years it is vital that we all help making sure that every country support the womens team as much as the mens team.

Anyway. Watch this movie and weep. Then rise up and organize.

This is a documentary film of the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico. This opens with an interview with Brandi Chastain. The interviewer shows her footage from a 1971 game and she is shocked. She had never seen nor known of such an event.

This is amazing true history that apparently nobody but only those who witnessed it would remember. This does a great job documenting it with the ladies. I would like more from the men who created it and ran it. There is more story from that angle especially after the event. I want to know who and how this event was essentially erased. There needs to be more revelation than The Men. I would also like to know where that trophy is now.

If this documentary is not nominated to an Oscar or an Emmy, it is a crime.

The subject is quite niche but the undertones of a social statement are there. It's denouncing one of the greatest injustices in sports history. To think this was hidden for so many years just because it was a woman's event it's almost unbelievable.

The first hands stories of these pioneers are grappling and inspiring.

The perspective of those who comment through experience and how they got to the 71 event makes this probably the best sports documentary ever made.

If you believe in social causes, football, or just plain storytelling, this is it.