Elba Selva

The extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s World Cup, which was held in Mexico City and witnessed by more than 100,000 fans. This landmark tournament was dismissed by FIFA and written out of sports history – until now, with dazzling archival footage and interviews with the former players.

In 1971, a group of Argentine soccer players traveled to Mexico to represent their country for the first time in a World Cup. After the false promises of a businessman, when they arrive at their destination they discover that they are alone, without boots, without shirts and without a technical director. By dint of goals and personality they became the favorites of the Mexican public and today make up one of the main and forgotten pages in the history of Argentine football.

In 1971 there was an Argentine women's soccer team that represented us in the World Cup in Mexico. They traveled with the little they had and tried to survive for the duration of the World Cup. There they were covered in the newspapers and in their country they were invisible.