In recent weeks, the issue that the Monterrey Rayadas women’s team went through during their visit to the Azteca Stadium when they faced America has sounded very loud on networks. Well, Eva Espejo, the technical director of the visitors, denounced verbal violence by the English coach Craig Harrington towards his soccer players.
This event unleashed a huge wave of annoyance and comments from both independent media and journalists, reporters and even soccer players who spoke out against verbal aggression in sports.
Although the league acted duly sanctioning the azulcrema coach for three games, the discussion went further, for the simple fact that today the protagonist was Harrington, but tomorrow it could be someone else, and that is just what you want to avoid.
A number of spaces, comments and podcasts were made based on this topic, but without a doubt, the one that had the most impact and weight was the Twitter space organized by “La Barra Feminista” where space was given to large independent media outlets led by women who have followed and supported women’s soccer for a long time, such as Olympic Goddesses, MX Champions, Cancha y Aparte, Futbolera, Cambio de cancha and Te Cuento de Fut Femenil.
The theme of the forum, beyond covering the Harrington situation, highlighted and highlighted the importance of being informed and the repercussions that these types of gestures can bring, which sadly have become normalized in today’s sport. Therefore, topics such as the application of anti-harassment protocols and establishing better rules in the face of gender-based violence were touched upon to prevent these actions that only stain sport from continuing to be incurred.
The main objective of the forum was to raise awareness and advocate both for the players who are constantly harassed by fans, by the media and even by elements of the same institutions for which they work, as has been the case with Harrington.
Undoubtedly, in situations like these, the panorama opens up and expands to reflect and really ask ourselves if the correct measures are being implemented by the league and if it is enough.
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