Threats and Harassment: The Dark Side of Mexican Women’s Soccer

2023-09-23 21:29:09

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“I told my club, but they took it lightly because ‘it was on a social network,'” said the Tuzas del Pachuca player.

Hours before playing a match in the Mexican women’s league in 2021, the soccer player Nailea Glass received a death threat and even though he notified his team, the Leónthose in charge minimized that his life was at risk.

“In a León match once morest Tigres in León they told me on my Instagram that that would be my last match. They told me ‘we are going to kill you’. Nobody did anything regarding it. I told my club, but they took it lightly because ‘it was on a social network’. “They have to kill us for something to happen,” the U.S. midfielder told EFE. Pachuca gophers.

Nailea Vidrio reported threats through her social networks. Imago 7

Vidrio is one of the soccer players in the local league who are digitally harassed every day. The attacks expelled Scarlett Camberos, then forward of the Águilas del América, from Mexico last March.

Like Camberos, who was followed home by the stalker, and Vidrio, daughter of the former Spanish Osasuna player. Manuel Vidrioattacks went from the virtual to the real world.

Also when he was active in Leónthe former player attended to support the men’s team in a Concacaf Champions League match once morest the Seattle Sounders, in which she received whistles and sexual comments regarding her body from fans.

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The former soccer player Blue Cross He has even received threats of rape on his social networks and, due to the lack of guarantees from his teams, he has reached the point of having to carry knives to defend himself.

“That day once morest Tigers I was seeing who was pointing something at me. You live in fear. I had a knife in my car in case something happened. “At night I slept afraid that someone would come to my door.”

Nailea Glass He detailed that in the León The support they gave him was moral, but they never offered him to go and file a complaint.

When he tried to file the complaint without support from the Leóncame across the impunity that reigns in Mexico, which causes more than 10 femicides a day and thousands of attacks on women who go unpunished.

“In the matter of León I went to the authorities and they told me there was no evidence. We really just need to be believed. Until they kill us, they will do something,” reiterated the Guadalajara native.

The midfielder recognized the efforts that the Mexican league has made, such as the protocol to prevent gender violence that they launched last July, however she asked for greater measures such as laws that punish aggressors more severely.

In the case of Camberos, the lack of legislation to attack digital harassment was exposed since the former player of the America He left the country to sign for the Angel City American because the authorities of Mexico City might only punish the aggressor with an arrest of a few hours.

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