Role
Former athlete, captain of the Italian national team. Football coach and teacher. Member of the European Parliament and member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Bio
Carolina Morace, a lawyer, former international footballer, and coach, is one of the most iconic figures in the history of Italian women's football. With a degree in Law from La Sapienza University of Rome, she combined her sporting career with legal training, developing a particular focus on the protection of rights and equal treatment .
She made her debut for the Italian national team in 1978 and during her career, which ended in 1998, she won 12 league titles, 2 Italian Cups, and one Italian Super Cup; for 12 seasons, she was the top scorer in Serie A.
In 1999, she became the first woman to coach a professional men's team in Italy, Viterbese. She led the Italian women's national team (2000–2005), the Canadian women's national team, with which she won the Women's Championship in 2010, and the Trinidad and Tobago national team (2016–2018). She coached Lazio and AC Milan, leading Lazio to Serie A glory in 2021.
The first woman inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2014, she received the Golden Foot Legend award in 2019. She is the author of La Prima Punta (2019) and Fuori dagli schemi (2020).
Elected to the European Parliament in 2024 with the Five Star Movement, she is a member of the Committees on Women's Rights and Equality (FEMM) and Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), and a substitute member of the Committees on Culture and Education (CULT) and Development (DEVE). She is Vice-President of the LGBTIQ+ Intergroup.
Its activity focuses on gender equality, protection of rights , fight against discrimination, with attention to the promotion of sport as a right and the presence of women in technical and managerial roles .