The Getafe City Council and the Getafe Football Club have agreed to remove the name of Alfonso Pérez from the Coliseum, the stadium where the Azulón team plays, after the “sexist” statements made by the former Getafe footballer.
This has been decided by the municipal government team, formed by PSOE and Podemos. And so it has been transferred to the club, which uses this facility under a municipal grant, to “serve as an example when transmitting positive values ??of sport such as equality, solidarity and respect.”
The decision was rushed after the former player of Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team assured in a statement to the newspaper El Mundo that “women’s and men’s football cannot be compared at all because everything depends on the income you generate.” and the media impact”.
“I would like to get paid for Cristiano Ronaldo, but I’m not that good. It is what it is. Everyone has to know where they are. They can’t complain. Women’s football has evolved, but they must have their feet on the ground and knowing that they cannot be equated in any sense with a male soccer player,” Pérez said in the aforementioned interview.
The mayor of the town herself, Sara Hernández (PSOE), has made the decision official through social networks after telling the club that this municipal facility, loaned to Getafe C.F., should be an example to transmit positive sports values ??such as equality, solidarity and respect.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has criticized the municipal and club decision in a message on the social network of football cannot even give his opinion if the power does not please him.
In the last few hours, the mayor of Getafe has harshly criticized the former soccer player’s 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 criticized unless such award-winning footballers as Alfonso Pérez had come out to support their teammates,” Hernández assured.
“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 City Council have also acknowledged to EFE, where they reiterate that ” “They don’t 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 “.
