Sara Gunnarsdottir has expressed her anger over the choice which can see Iceland play Euro 2022 matches at Manchester Metropolis’s academy stadium.
The ladies’s European Championship kicks off on Wednesday 6 July, with England staging the event for simply the second time of their historical past.
UEFA confirmed that matches will happen in 10 totally different stadiums throughout 9 cities, together with Southampton, Milton Keynes and Rotherham.
The smallest stadium will is the Manchester Metropolis Academy Stadium, the house of Manchester Metropolis Girls, which accommodates 7,000 followers.
Iceland have already offered out their two group stage fixtures set to be performed on the stadium.
The Lyon midfielder, Gunnarsdottir, believes the inclusion of such a small venue is “disrespectful” in direction of the ladies’s recreation.
“I’m disenchanted with the arenas we’ve got been given. It’s stunning – we play a event in England with a number of massive arenas, and we get to play at a coaching facility that takes round 5,000 spectators,” she mentioned on Fotbollskanalen’s Their Pitch podcast.
“It’s simply embarrassing and it’s not the respect we deserve. They haven’t ready for the truth that we are able to promote greater than 4000, it’s disrespectful to girls’s soccer.
“Girls’s soccer takes two steps in the best path, however then issues like this occur and then you definitely take a step again. However matches will probably be performed in bigger arenas that I’m positive will promote out.
“Girls’s soccer explodes and also you begin to get the respect you deserve. It’s getting higher – extra money is being pumped in now and it’s entering into the best path. However there are nonetheless issues that want to enhance.”
Iceland will probably be outsiders to achieve the knockout phases as they compete alongside France, Italy and Belgium, as they make their fourth look on the event.
The Manchester Metropolis Academy Stadium will stage Iceland’s opening recreation in opposition to Belgium on 10 July and their second group stage conflict with Italy 4 days later. Their match in opposition to France will probably be held on the New York Stadium in Rotterdam, which has a capability 12,000.
Requested why girls are nonetheless requested to play at coaching grounds at main tournaments however not males, the Iceland star replied: “I might like to know the reply. You marvel in the event that they even observe girls’s soccer as a result of it’s widespread sense. It’s simply silly to speak about as a result of it’s unreasonable and irritating.
“Tickets for the matches have offered out so quick that relations have had a tough time getting tickets to the championship.
“Twenty thousand would most likely have come over from Iceland to look at the matches. However relations are struggling to get tickets as a result of they offered out as quickly as they dropped.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
