None of the players anticipated just how big of an impact the calendar would have, both individually and as a collective. ![]() ![]() Others say it was a Melbourne businessman who approached Fisher, offering to add the Matildas in his catalogue of nude calendars and other raunchy material he published in Australia.Įither way, the enthusiastic CEO took the idea to his board, arguing that it could allow the AWSA to hard-launch the Matildas' brand, publicise their new nickname ( which was decided via a public poll a few years earlier, but hadn't really caught on), and raise funds for the players themselves. ![]() Some say it emerged during a boozy player party earlier in 1999, with a couple of squad members then approaching AWSA CEO Warren Fisher privately with their suggestion in the sober light of day. It's unclear exactly who came up with the original idea. Something that no women's football team had done before. Media coverage was slim, broadcasts of their games were non-existent, and major sponsorships were a pipedream. They needed to do something different. Not content with merely sending women in swimsuits hurtling down a slip-n-slide, Brazilian television channel RedeTV! invented an entirely new sport to showcase some of the country’s most beautiful women.That's the question the board of the Australian Women's Soccer Association (AWSA), the national governing body of women's football at the time, was faced with as they tried to get the Matildas ready for one of the most significant football tournaments of their lives. Played on an inflatable pitch around 25m in length, the rules seem to be similar to 5-a-side football: the ball is always in play, goalkeepers are optional and refereeing policy is extremely liberal. When the match official, a portly gentleman in a grey suit, begins the game by throwing a ball onto the pitch, all hell breaks loose. Within five seconds, half of the ten players have hit the deck, covered in soap suds. The referee stops the game and orders a restart before an overzealous brunette launches a tasty two-footed tackle in on an opposing player. Play continues as the scantily-clad women battle through the treacherous conditions in search of a goal. Suddenly, the ball breaks for the pink team in front of goal but the sexy striker can only slice her effort over the wall. Just as the game seems to be destined for a 0-0 finish, a box-to-box blonde midfielder launches a stinging shot from the halfway line that squirts through the keeper’s grasp and into the bottom corner.Ĭue celebrations all round, and a trip to the showers.Actress Chloë Grace Moretz has long been known as a strong voice when it comes to issues of feminism, whether it’s over-sexualization of female characters or equal pay for women. Now she’s speaking out against the marketing campaign behind one of her own projects. Moretz went on social media Wednesday to address criticism that marketing for the animated film “Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarfs” - an updated tweak on the Snow White story, with Moretz as the voice of the classic fairy-tale character - engages in body-shaming. “I have now fully reviewed the for Red Shoes, I am just as appalled and angry as everyone else, this wasn’t approved by me or my team,” the actress wrote.Īccording to the website of the South Korean animation studio behind the film, its story centers on “a Princess who doesn’t fit into the celebrity world of Princesses - or their dress size.” When she puts on a pair of magical red shoes, she instantly becomes skinnier. The film’s synopsis promises an empowering message in which Snow White “learns not only to accept herself, but to celebrate who she is, inside and out.” But the film’s trailer and other marketing materials have been blasted as fat-shaming. ![]() Plus-size model Tess Holliday took to Twitter to criticize a billboard for the film that appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, where “Red Shoes” was seeking distribution, that suggested that the less svelte Snow White was “no longer beautiful.” John Legend is making a case for the recently canceled TV drama “Underground” to be picked up by other content providers. The Oscar-winning musician, who is an executive producer and played abolitionist Frederick Douglass on the Underground Railroad-centered show, rallied fans to give it a second life when cable broadcaster WGN America announced Tuesday it would be canceling the series after two seasons. The network has been scaling down its investment in original programming as part of a deal that its parent company, Tribune Media, made with conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. Sinclair’s purchase of Tribune gives it control of more than 200 local TV stations and WGN America.
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