An Italian skilled footballer says she has been fired from her membership after falling pregnant.
Alice Pignagnoli, 34, who was a goalkeeper at Italian third division facet Lucchese, based mostly in Tuscany, mentioned she was sacked by her membership as a result of she had a baby on the best way.
‘I am pregnant and my staff has stopped paying my wages,’ Pignagnoli advised Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino.
Throughout her sixteen-year profession, Pignagnoli has performed for AC Milan, Torres, Mantua and Reggiana.
Alice Pignagnoli, 34, who was a goalkeeper at Italian third division facet Lucchese, based mostly in Tuscany, mentioned she was sacked by her membership as a result of she had a baby on the best way. She is pictured coaching in 2021
Pignagnoli mentioned: ‘I felt damage as a lady, mom and athlete. And likewise very alone, incapable.’ She is pictured in a publish to her Instagram web page in July 2022
In 2011 she received the Italian Tremendous Cup with Torres, a membership in Sassari, Sardinia, earlier than happening to with the league later that season.
Pignagnoli mentioned: ‘In mid October I discovered I used to be pregnant for the second time. I advised Lucchese supervisor Mario Santoro, and I used to be advised {that a} deal made final summer season needed to be revered, and that they not meant to pay me what I am due.’
The goalkeeper posted a message to her Instagram web page, writing it as a letter to her unborn little one.
Within the lengthy publish, Pignagnoli mentioned: ‘I felt damage as a lady, mom and athlete. And likewise very alone, incapable.’
Throughout her sixteen-year profession, Pignagnoli has performed for AC Milan, Torres, Mantua and Reggiana. Pignagnoli is pictured in her goalkeeper package for Censa in 2019
Pignagnoli mentioned she felt like ‘an previous toy to be thrown away’. She is pictured getting ready for coaching in 2021
In her Instagram publish, Pignagnoli mentioned: ‘I dream a world of affection the place the ladies come from supported in one of many largest and but tough duties they face
She mentioned she felt like ‘an previous toy to be thrown away’.
When she was seven months pregnant together with her first little one, her then membership Cesena had renewed her contract.
‘After what occurred two years in the past with Cesena, I might by no means have anticipated this to occur,’ she mentioned.
In her Instagram publish, Pignagnoli added: ‘I dream a world of affection the place the ladies come from supported in one of many largest and but tough duties they face: not solely producing life, however not feeling ‘improper’ about their decisions.
‘A world the place girls are valued by their value and never by the quantity of youngsters they’ve or haven’t got.’
