Sassuolo Women’s Football

The Mapei Group has chosen football as its main means of communication and is really helping it develop - this season the Sassuolo football club holding also includes a women’s sector.

This project first began when UEFA decided to hold the 2015-16 Women’s Champions League final at Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia. The team organised in partnership with Reggiana Femminile finished the first half of the season at the top of Group B of the Serie B championship, setting a goal-scoring record: a total of 60, ending the first half of the Serie B season with ten wins, two draws and just one defeat. Might the team get promoted into Serie A?

Sassuolo women’s football team’s home kit is sky-blue: “Reggiana Femminile’s famous old club colours - so Elisabetta Vignotto told us, a former footballer, who is now the president of Sassuolo women’s football club -and so is the away kit of the men’s team, so this is anything but a random choice”.

The women sector of Sassuolo football club has seven teams: ranging from the girls’ under 12s to the senior team that plays in the Italian Serie B.

THE “SERIE B” FOOTBALL GIRLS

Goalkeepers: Ierardi Francesca (30-6-’96), Alice Lugli (14-10-’96), Sabrina Tasselli (3-4-’90).

Defenders: Benedetta Brignoli

(4-10-’99), Giulia Bursi (4-4-’96), Roberta Casile (20-3-’86), Ginevra Costantino (7-5-2000), Zoi Giatras

(3-11-’91), Paola Gobbi (25-6-’98), Greta Maretti (29-7-2001), Rebecca Poluzzi (13-4-’97), Stefania Zanoletti (4-3-’90).

Midfielders: Lara Barbieri

(2-2-’86), Martina Corradini (26-3-’97), Atdhetare Halitjaha (2-11-’93), Eleonora Prost (30-3-’90), Sara Tardini (8-7-’96).

Forwards: Fabiana Costi

(6-10-’86), Giusy Faragò (26-12-’93), Francesca Imprezzabile (7-1-2001), Gaia Mastrovincenzo (27-7-’89), Sara Orlandini (8-8-’96), Benedetta Orsi

(25-2-2000).