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Sirene Milano is not only the first Italian women's American football team but a family, in which different personalities coexist and complement each other. Discipline, perseverance and mutual trust are some of the founding values for the group, united by a strong sense of belonging and ready to fight together to achieve their dreams, including spreading the discipline of women's football in Italy and Europe.

Unlike other sports traditionally thought of as feminine, in which competition between female teammates is completely unavoidable, this community lives everything in reverse: eager to legitimize their passion against stereotypes and prejudices, they challenge the old and ingrained thought that girls cannot challenge each other in a sport with a high percentage of physical contact by running until the goal, what they themselves call a touchdown, is achieved.

For me, the Sirene are a family, my reference point and my joy.

"Il football mi ha aiutato tanto a credere nell’amicizia tra donne. È facile pensare, anche per un discorso culturale interiorizzato dalla società, che nei gruppi di donne ci sia più competizione che coesione."

American football is the art of staying on your feet when everyone is trying to knock you down. You learn to get back up, with the help of your teammates, thinking about the goal, the touchdown.

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Yasmin Leite

10 Line Backer

Movement is life, and Yasmin was able to start moving again thanks to football. The daily drive to train for herself, but also for the teammates with whom she shares passions and goals, has rekindled in her the desire to do and try her hand at new challenges. 

Yasmin lifted herself out of the monotony of the pandemic by enrolling in the Sirene Milan team, and thanks to the support of that team and the physical mastery that football restored to her, she felt strong enough to throw herself into another challenge: she enrolled in college at age 25 to study filmmaking. This apparent delay didn't phase her because Yasmin preferred to pursue her time for herself, although outside the team not all the groups she is in have the same drive toward a common goal:

"In the team the age issue does not exist, for me when we are on the field we are all the same age. We are all dressed in the same uniform, we all incite the same way and believe in each other. With my fellow students, on the other hand, I suffer a bit from the age difference, we follow the same path but do not pursue the same goal."

The sense of belonging and family that football is able to generate makes the players united as if by an invisible thread, even off the pitch. Being part of a group that shares values and allows the rediscovery of individuality as a member of a family is part of human nature.

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