Copa 71

Section: Game On
Title: Copa 71
Director: James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay
Cast: Virginia Andrada, Ann Andreassen, Jan Barton, Armelle Binard
Duration: 1h 30m
Country: United Kingdom
Language: en
Year: 2023

August 1971. Soccer teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark, and Italy gather at Mexico City for a monumental tournament: crowds of over 100,000 roaring fans attending every match. 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 pioneering unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both the governing body and domestic soccer associations around the world, this event had been sidelined in history. Until now.