A SCOTLAND World Cup winner is helping young players challenge discrimination in football.
Rose Reilly, from Stewarton, has teamed up with a primary school girls' football team to highlight inequality in a short film with the Children and Young People’s Commissioner.
When Rose began playing in the early 1960s, she had to pretend to be a boy and faced ‘the belt’ for playing football at school.
Later she was banned by the SFA for playing in, or for Scotland after she moved to France, then Italy, to become a professional.
She won the World Cup with her adopted country Italy in 1984.
The film will be shown at a national online assembly on Friday, April 24.
In it, girls from South Morningside Primary School discuss winning the Edinburgh Schools Cup last year and being shocked to receive a much smaller trophy than the boys' team.
Alex, a player on the team, said: "We’d just won and we went up and said, ‘This isn’t fair’.
"The trophy size was completely different to the boys’. The next day at school we said, ‘Can we write a letter?’ So that’s what we did."
The girls, then in Primary 6 and 7, challenged the organisers and were later given a larger trophy.
Freya, a South Morningside winger, said: "We want to inspire girls to not be happy with something that’s worse than what the boys get."
Nicola Killean, the children and young people’s commissioner, will host the online assembly at 9.30am alongside 14-year-old young advisor Oscar.
The event is aimed at primary-aged children.
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