Copa '71 - Official Trailer

Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archives unseen for fifty years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history – until now.

It is August 1971. Teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark, and Italy gathered in Mexico City for a watershed soccer tournament: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner, and over 100,000 roaring fans turning the historic Azteca Stadium into a cauldron of noise while a fawning media treated the players like rock stars. This was the greatest show on Earth but, despite being one of the most ground-breaking moments in soccer history, you’ve probably never heard of it. And why? Because the players were all women, and the heroic event that unfolded, had been sidelined from history – until now.

COPA 71 is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary tournament – told through the voices of those who lived it: fearless women from across the globe to whom today’s players, be they superstar like Megan Rapinoe, Lucy Bronze and Marta, or a young girl playing in her local park, owe so much.

The tournament was the flame that lit the touchpaper for the explosion of women’s soccer around the globe – the catalyst that led to the 2015 Women’s World Cup final gaining TV audiences in America larger than the NBA final.

In spite of the fact that the blazer-wearing men of soccer associations around the world waged a war on women’s soccer from the 1920s, and that soccer’s governing body tried to stop Copa ’71 from happening at all, this remarkable event is believed to be the highest-ever attendance for a women’s sporting event – and at 100,000+ it is a record that will likely never be broken. Through recently uncovered and never-seen archive and compelling contemporary interviews, the film revels in the excitement, passion and humour of this inexplicably well-kept secret.

With cinematic flair, an original score, and thumping 70’s soundtrack driven by female singer songwriters including Carol King, Nancy Sinatra, Kiki Dee, Koko Taylore and Lara Saint Paul, COPA 71 sets the players’ personal stories within the context of omen’s liberation movement in the 60s through to present day in England, Italy, France, Argentina, Denmark and Mexico.

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