Lula receives the Women’s World Cup cup at Alvorada in the first appearance after pneumonia

The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) participated in a ceremony to present the Cup of the Women’s World Cup, at the Palácio do Alvorada, in the morning of this fifth fair (30).

The event marked the first public appearance of the president since he was diagnosed, last Sunday, with a case of mild pneumonia, which forced him to cancel a state trip to China.

At the ceremony, which was also attended by the Minister of Sports, Ana Moser, the First Lady Janja da Silva and the President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), Ednaldo Rodrigues, Lula signed a decree to encourage the development of professional women’s football and lover not country.

The women’s soccer World Cup cup. Twisting to be nossa 🏆

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– Lula (@LulaOficial) March 30, 2023

“Ana Moser is competing to carry out the Women’s World Cup in Brazil. We are in a better position than the one we had when we won the Men’s Cup. And we evolved in women’s soccer. The government will be available to draw us to the 2027 Cup for Brazil”, publicou or president on Twitter after or event

The 2023 Women’s World Cup will take place between July 20 and August 20 in Australia and New Zealand. O Brazil begins the dispute for the unprecedented title with the group stage against France, Panama and Jamaica. He was closer than the team he had been in 2007, when he was vice-champion for Germany.

The decree issued determined the creation of the “National Strategy for Women’s Soccer”.

In addition to the incentive to the sports modality for “discovering and directing new talents”, it is determined that, “in 120 days, the Ministry of Sports will prepare a diagnosis of the current situation of women’s football in the country and a Plan of Actions by 2025 for a implantation of the Strategy”, apontou o Palácio do Planalto in a statement.

“Other points of the National Strategy will be highlighted this month by women in the fight against discrimination against girls and women in practices related to soccer and in promoting the participation of women in management positions, in arbitration and in the technical direction of teams”, he added.