Getafe withdraws the name of Alfonso Pérez from the Coliseum after his interview with EL MUNDO
The Getafe City Council has agreed with Getafe CF to withdraw the name of Alfonso Pérez from the Coliseum, the stadium where the team plays, after the former footballer's “sexist” statements.
This is how the municipal government, formed by PSOE and Podemos, has reacted after the former player of Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team assured in statements to EL MUNDO that “women's and men's football cannot be compared at all, because everything “It depends on the income you generate and the media impact.”
“I would like to collect Cristiano Ronaldo's money, but I'm not that good.”. It is what it is. Everyone has to know where they are. can't complain. Women's soccer has evolved, but they must have their feet on the ground and know that they cannot be equated in any sense with a male soccer player,” Pérez said in an interview with that newspaper.
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“The stadium will be known only as Coliseum following the statements of Alfonso Pérez, a native of Getafe and Olympic champion,” the City Council and club said in a joint statement.
“Both institutions agree on the need to preserve the positive values that emanate from sport, which are promoted in the city through sports schools,” says the text.. “In the same context, the majority of Getafe fans have expressed themselves.”
“Disappointed and sad”
The mayor of the town herself, Sara Hernández (PSOE), declared that she felt “very disappointed and sad” by these statements.
“It saddens me that she says that her teammates on the Spanish national team have nothing to complain about in the world of football.”. Man, there have been sexual assaults, the players have denounced absolutely sexist attitudes and have had to demand minimum working conditions, where I have missed that such award-winning footballers as Alfonso Pérez had come out to support their teammates,” added the socialist councilor. .
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“The sexist opinions reflected by Alfonso Pérez in a recent interview about his teammates on the Spanish team have no place in our society.. Equality is not 'having our space,'” sources from the Consistory tell EFE, where they reiterate that “they do not conceive that sport can only be understood as a business.”
In this sense, these sources affirm that “many players and women have fought throughout their lives to achieve minimum working conditions that are still far from being equal”, in addition to that “many women continue to be murdered every week in Spain by machismo “.