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    Maribel Dominguez is a star soccer player for Mexico known for her scoring ability. She grew up playing soccer with boys and hid her gender for years. Maribel faced challenges as a woman playing in a male-dominated sport. She was denied the opportunity to play for a men's professional team due to rules separating men's and women's soccer at age 13. Despite obstacles, Maribel had an accomplished career playing internationally and professionally in Mexico, the U.S., Europe, and dreams of continuing her impact on and off the field.

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    Maribel Dominguez is a star soccer player for Mexico known for her scoring ability. She grew up playing soccer with boys and hid her gender for years. Maribel faced challenges as a woman playing in a male-dominated sport. She was denied the opportunity to play for a men's professional team due to rules separating men's and women's soccer at age 13. Despite obstacles, Maribel had an accomplished career playing internationally and professionally in Mexico, the U.S., Europe, and dreams of continuing her impact on and off the field.

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    #'Contrasting facts and ideas


    '! opener

    ''

    \i-'

    Look at the photo. How popular is women's soccer in your


    country? Are there other sports which more men than
    women play? Are there sports which more women than
    men play?

    rs t

    a man' allxe?r' asks

    UEarge

    Mexico's star woman soccer ptayer, Maribel Dominguez, is


    known as "Marigol" because she scores so often-46 goals in
    49 internationaI matches. But life isn't, and hasn't been, easy
    for her in a man's world-soccer.

    to ptay when she was nine years otd on


    waste[and near her new home in Mexico City. But she pLayed
    with boys. The short-haired new arrival was soon accqpted
    MaribeL started

    into the group of boys. They catted her Mario'

    "I trjcked them for years," MaribeI confesses. "They onty


    found out I wasn't a boy when they saw my picture in the
    paper. I'd got into a junior national team. They went to my
    house and asked if I was a girl". They were pretty shocked"'
    Maribel was 20 when she joined the Mexican national team
    and played in the Women's World Cup in the U.S. in 1999'
    The team lost a[[ their matches, but MaribeI was soon ptaying
    for a professionaI women's team in Atlanta in the u'S' Then

    &

    came the 2004 Athens Olympics and the Mexican women's


    team reached the quarter-finats, whi[e the men's team were

    knocked out in the first round. By now Maribet was famous


    and atso Lucky that she had escaped serious injuries.

    ffi

    "MaribeL realty is very, very good," says Nora Henera, one


    of a few women soccerjournaLjsts in Mexico. "She has an
    incredible nose for a goat, she can sme[[ it, and she's fast
    and courageous, and surprisingty strong too."

    ffi in

    ZOOs MaribeL shocked

    the Mexican soccer wortd byjoining

    a second-division ctub catted Celaya. which was [ooking for


    a centre forward. It was a men's c[ub. The Mexican Soccer
    Association said it had no problem with her ptaying in
    a male team, but they had to ask FIFA, the world soccer
    organization. Just before Christmas 2005 FIFA announced its
    decision: "There must be a clear separation between men's
    and women's soccer." In other words, no!

    "I just wanted to be given the chance to try," said Maribet. "If
    I trad faiLed, I woutd have been the first to say that I coutdn't
    do it. But at least ] wou[d have tried." So Maribel moved to
    Europe

    to ptay professional women's soccer for Barcelona'

    World Cup and another


    0Lympics. Then she wants to start a soccer schooI for gir|,s'
    She's saving money for it, but women soccer players are paid
    much much less than men. In Mexico Maribel got $1000 a
    month, whereas a top male ptayer got $100,000. "To ptay in

    ffi Her dream is to pLay in another

    one of those competitions feets fabutous. It's the best thing


    for a woman. The very best. WeLL, for a femaLe soccer ptayer
    it's the best thing that can happen. For a man, maybe earning
    a miLtion dottars a month is better. I don't know."

    Lu

    .:
    ' :.e 'ls it a man's game?' asks Marigoland match these
    cs with the paragraphs.

    FIFA says that boys and girls can play soccer together until
    they are 13. but after that there must be separate male
    and female teams. Do you agree? And why are male
    soccer players paid so much more than female players?

    -::

    :. Crscove- A review The future


    1 jurprise decision Her career Introducing Marigol
    :. neu, continent Early days

    ln what other areas of life do men and women have


    different opportunities and pay? Think about sports.
    education, and jobs. Discuss your ideas with other

    -d the highlighted words in the text which mean:

    students.

    -,i.oman adl
    ,<rvs that he/she has done something wrong
    series of games in a competition n

    man adj
    unused open ground n
    last four games between eight players or teams in

    8
    9

    competition n
    put out of a competition after losing a game

    :i:;r::t:::ii.

    Write three paragraphs contrasting the situations


    of men and women in your country. ls it easier to be
    a man or a woman-what are the advantages and

    disadvantages?

    brave adj

    :, ::i.1

    group of teams who play against each other n

    We can use uzhereas or while to contrast two facts or


    ideas. Find an example of each in the text.

    ri.:ir:,1:.';:

    l. i i rr.-

    f..:

    a large piece of paper.

    eyery time,you leave your room.


    a week, take the paper down, and rnake a nerr",
    uord map lor anorher ropic.
    .:: You can save the papers for last-minute review.

    Read and complete as much of the text as you can


    for Maribel. Then listen and take notes so you can
    complete the text for Hanna as well.

    After

    Word creation: make adjectives ending in -ous from


    these nouns and complete the sentences.

    Both Maribel Dominguez and Hanna Ljungberg are

    t . Maribel has scored 2 goals in


    international matches, whereas Hanna has scored
    goals in s internationals. Maribel started
    playing u,hen she was 6 , while
    Hanna started when she was 7
    international

    courage danger infection luxury


    nerve poison space superstition

    3
    +

    I
    2

    Maribel.oined rhe \lexican rcam


    when she was B . w-hereas Hanna
    joined the Swedish ream when she
    was 9 . Maribel played in the
    lo World Cup in the U.S.,

    4
    5

    Hanna 1I . Maribel

    -\e,

    serrous -, ^F
    injurie'. while Hanna
    has tJ been injured -}'-,f

    ::

    Make a u,ord map of a group of words or phrases you


    want to rer.iew for exampie, words about a sport, on

    +:.,

    naoa rot or

    l:, Hang the piece of paper on your door and look at it

    Llstening

    ::l.

    Thinklng skills: reviewing groups of words or phrases

    Linking words: whereas and white

    while

    :'

    Shc\ ver)
    nor afraid of anyrhing
    -she's
    The hotel was reaill,
    never stal,ed
    -I've
    anlnvhere as nice.
    It's not safe-in fact it's really _.
    People who believe in magic are often
    My cold's geming better-I don't think I,m _
    now.
    All soccer players get _
    before a game.
    The room is very
    can hold up to fifty people.
    Those mushrooms are-it
    so you mustn,t eat them.

    10 Phras*book

    soccer players, and

    both were asked to

    tb

    Find these useful expressions in Unit 5. Then Iisten and

    repeat.

    Neither did.

    I wish I hadn't forgotten... you needn't worry.


    I don't know why. And that's it.

    Now listen and

    What could have happened?

    check your answers.

    She really is very, very


    I

    Hanna Ljungberg,
    Ume lK, Sweden

    good. In orher words...


    just wanted to be given the chance.

    Now write a six-line dialogue using at least three of


    these expressions.

    lllil'tommliiiatin, Aetiit
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