Some players of the Alhama de Murcia club of the F League, a total of 17, have distanced themselves this Tuesday from the accusations of sexual harassment that weigh on the team’s coach, Randri GarcÃa and have assured that at no time have they felt harassed.
“We do not agree to accuse the coach of being a sexual harasser, something that is extremely serious. In addition, we want to emphasize that at no time have we felt harassed with gestures or actions that could violate our dignity and personal and professional privacy”, They stated in a statement released through the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE).
The soccer players reacted like this after El Periódico and Mundo Deportivo had pointed out the coach of the Murcian team, Juan Antonio GarcÃa ‘Randri’, as the alleged perpetrator of insults and repeated harassment of his soccer players and as responsible for having sent a photograph of a sexual nature to the footballers of the team.
The image to which El Periódico and Mundo Deportivo alluded, to which La Vanguardia has also had access, was sent to all the soccer players, including a minor, on March 27 and was the trigger for this complaint.
El Alhama defended itself against the accusations by first assuring that it was not aware of “any complaint for insults, harassment or any similar behavior”, and later declaring the “opening of an internal investigation into the facts”.
This morning, the majority union Futpro issued a statement condemning the events and announcing that “various complaints had been filed with the Labor Inspectorate, RFEF and CSD.” In addition, he assures that at the moment he was aware of what had happened “he informed the club” and asked “to activate the protocol of the Collective Agreement to guarantee the protection of the soccer players and remove the coach provisionally and immediately”.
The 17 players who sign the statement in which they distance themselves from the accusations, maintain that if these events had occurred, “they would have denounced them immediately in all those instances that were necessary.”
“We want to make it clear that in the last days we will work with the same professionalism as up to now to achieve the objective that we set ourselves at the beginning of the season,” adds the text signed by Laura MartÃnez, Carmen Fresneda, Judith Caravaca, Lena Pérez, LucÃa RamÃrez, Olivia MarÃa Oprea, Aldrith Ivana Quintero, Daniela Arques, Helena Torres, Astrid Ãlvarez, Jade Boho, Miriam RodrÃguez, Marina MartÃ, Raquel Pinel, Raquel Morcillo, Clara Román and Charity Ogbenyealu.
