Italy a land of opportunity as Juventus add weight to Women’s Serie A | Suzanne Wrack

The arrival of Juventus has boosted the Italian top flight and English women are finding it an attractive place to improve their technical level

As major clubs such as Paris St-Germain, Barcelona and Manchester City have added women’s teams to their portfolios, the take-up in Italy of the women’s game by clubs with global profiles has been slower. Instead the women’s leagues have consisted of independent teams and sister sides of smaller clubs.

But that is changing. Italy is starting to catch up: the independent ACF Firenze were taken over by Fiorentina in 2015 and this year the most successful side in Italian football, Juventus, have entered the fray – with their purchase of Cuneo putting them straight into Serie A.

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