The FIFA became involved in a great sexist controversy a few days after the start of Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand after players were banned from a training camp for tournament referees.
This was reported by the Daily Mail, which had access to emails sent by FIFA Arbitration Division to Sydney clubs requesting that “male players aged 15” attended a series of training match sessions to prepare the referees for the World Cup.
Among the teams that requested to participate was a woman, according to the English outlet, who wanted to participate in the matches to help the FIFA but they ignored it. “They just picked a boy or boys to start the matches. The girls were told to wait on the sidelines and be substitutes. After two hours of waiting they decided to leave because they were fed up with being ignored2,” said one source in the Daily. Mail.
In particular, the message of FIFA that raised the blisters was the following: “FIFA requires male players over the age of 15 and with a good level of soccer ability to participate in daily training activities,” without specified why women could not. A total contradiction, since the World Cup is for women and more than that, a campaign was made to promote the sport in this genre by FIFA itself.
Source: La Verdad
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