Alice Pignagnoli pregnant, Lucchese doesn’t pay her for the season
She feels hurt “as a woman, mother and athlete” Alice Piggnagnoli, 34-year-old goalkeeper from Lucchese. “In mid-October – he tells the National Daily – I found out she was pregnant for the second time – tells -. I communicated this to the manager lucchese, Mario Santoro, and I was told that the commitments made in the summer must be respected: it was no longer their intention to pay me what is due to me. After what happened two years ago with Cesena, I never would have expected it”. Two years ago, the Romagna club renewed her contract at seventh month of pregnancy.
Pignagnoli had spoken about the issue in study a Football passion, after Cesena’s decision in view of her first pregnancy. “I will always thank the club for giving me this opportunity because it wasn’t obvious – he said in the studio – now if I could make one wish it would be to pave the way for the aftermath. If we want female athletes to be recognized as full-fledged professionals, we need to allow they, like the workers, of imagine a life beyond 20 years, a life that can also be with a family. I am necessary solutions for mothers as is the case in the world of work. We don’t dare less, we want to dare more and we give more.”.