On January 16th the final of the Italian Super Cup between Milan and Juventus will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The country will allow women to enter the stadium in only a few sections of the stadium. In Italy it is controversy.

The possibility of limiting only some sectors of the stadium to women is creating quite a few controversies in the "Bel Paese". Opinions are also divergent among important members of the Italian football and political panorama. There are those who are outraged by the fact that women must be so submissive and that Italy accept this behavior by going to play there, there are those who even think that it is a positive event due to the fact that thanks to this Italian event women will be able to enter the stadium for the first time, and there is also someone who claims not to be hypocrites. But let's see these opinions in detail.

Source: Calcioefinanza.it
That the Italian Super Cup is played in an Islamic country, where women can not go to the stadium if not accompanied by men is sadness and crap. I do not watch that match. And where are the Boldrini and Italian feminists? Football is a servant of the TV millionaire business. I do not want a similar future in Italy, they do what they want in their country. In Italia no.

These are the words of the Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini, who is a passionate fan of Milan, who declares that he will not watch the match in the form of protestor for the acceptance by Italian clubs to go to play the Super Cup in a country with rules so restrictive for women.

Our Super Cup will be remembered by history as the first official international competition in which Saudi women will be able to watch live.

This is the statement by Gaetano Macicchè, president of the Serie A Football League.

It is the triumph of hypocrisy on the part of many people. The problem has arisen with the affair of the tickets, the woman who before could not go to the stadium now can go there in certain areas. Then obviously everything that happens in Arabia does not agree with me. The Serie A League is a private entity, makes a bid and tells which place or city can host the Super Cup final over the next five years. The best offer was that of Saudi Arabia, the call was judged in July 2018. I remember then that we are doing the rain dance to be able to see the National team at the next World Cup to be held in Qatar, a country that has laws even more restrictive than Saudi Arabia.

Instead, these are the words of Giovanni Malagò, president of CONI, on which I am largely in agreement.

I think that Salvini's controversy is generated by the fact that the character in question has turned from a racist to a populist, and now every subject that can gather popular fury is carried forward with false rigor by this pseudo politician. Surely he will watch the game at home. On the other hand, I am in complete agreement with the president of CONI, Giovanni Maragò, who is totally against the current that all this controversy is the result of hypocrisy. Italians do not care about the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia, neither the world in general or the football world. If this were the case, it would not be accepted to play the next World Cup in Qatar, an even more restrictive country for women in terms of freedom. I believe that the situation of women in Islamic countries is widely tolerated by all and raise these controversies in such an event is just a hymn to populism to get consents.