Amid the ongoing scandal around women's football in Spain, Slovenia's Dominika Conc tells BBC Sport of her team's struggles.
Tired of how female footballers are treated, tired of the conditions she's forced to play in, and tired of fighting for even the smallest improvements.Conc is the vice-captain of Slovenia's women's national team. In July, she and 30 of her team-mates wrote an open letter to the president of the Slovenian football federation demanding the removal of head coach Borut Jarc and detailing allegations of bullying, sexism, body-shaming and inappropriate behaviour within the camp.
"Things were going on for the past five years. We had a respect-out-of-fear relationship before, you didn't say anything.Conc's words come at a time when the football world continues to reel from the aftermath of the Women's World Cup final, when Conc says she and her international team-mates had previously held a meeting with the football federation president and other officials, but came away feeling there was "no interest for the women's side".
So, Conc - who plays in midfield for Levante Las Planas in the Spanish top flight - and her team-mates went public, releasing their open letter. "We have to fight for jerseys, for the names on the jerseys, for the same jerseys as the men. We're playing in the middle of the day, in the middle of the nowhere. No wonder no-one is coming to watch our games."
"We are expecting better, but it's hard to say because we don't know what they're going to do," she says.
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