Now they call it #metoo of women’s football and like the “original” promises to tear down the fences that exist between one country and another and cross borders.
Just last week the American championship stopped, by order of their union Americans players, dragged into the protest by the stars of the world national team, Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Carly Lloyd.
They mobilized their fans on Twitter and provoked the most angry reactions after the last episode of sexual abuse that occurred in the event. The magazine «Athletic» made revelations about the coach a few days earlier Paul Riley. In 2018 and 2019, when he was at North Carolina Courage, forced a player to meet with him, two others to kiss him, sharing inappropriate photos here and there on mobile phones. The «Athletic» also stated that the Riley had lost his job as a coach at Portland Thorns in 2015, partly due to violations of the team’s policy, but the League in this case allowed another club to hire him immediately after. Without revealing what these violations were.
“Bigots disguised as coaches”
In August, the «Washington Post» reported that coach Ritchie Burke was fired by Washington Spirit. THE Christy Holly of Racing Louisville was fired for a just cause, according to the club’s announcement at the end of the month. In the face of all this, in front of the mobilization of the union, its commissioner National Football Soccer League (NWSL), Lisa Byrd resigned, apologizing for failing to fulfill the responsibility imposed on her by the role.
In an article on «Washington Post» with language that could… break bones, the sports reporter Candice Buckner He spoke of women being treated as “poker chips in a male-dominated game”, “bigoted disguises as coaches”, “distributors of abuse, which they call – listen, listen – teaching”. An image that is defined as a whole “as a decomposing septic tank” and continues in its article: “Enough with the slogans and progress in small doses. Until women athletes take power in their sports, these championships and their governing bodies will remain hell for them. If and when this happens, there may be a legitimate hope for girls who dream of athletic greatness. But it will take more than a nice slogan to get there. “
New complaint from Australia
THE FIFA did not manage to organize an investigation into the incident and has already opened a second front, in Australia, where the news of a complaint from Lisa De Vanna. The accusation in this case concerns some of her former teammates for inappropriate behavior. In this case, it was the Australian federation that launched the investigation and De Vana urged her Megan Rapinoe and the other American stars of her sport not to ignore this side, where women abuse other women. THE De Vana has a long career in women’s football that την led her to play in Sweden, at United States and also in Italy.
Lately, there have been reports of abuse of power and sexual abuse in both swimming and hockey, in a summer in which the American Champion of Instrumental Gymnastics Simon Byles found the strength to testify to US Senate and to repeat her accusations against the former osteopath of the American National Gymnastics Team. And of course one can not forget the Greek #MeToo with the pioneer of the Sailing Olympian,Sofia Bekatorou.
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