“I have heard, seen and suffered atrocities”

The diaries’Sports world‘ y ‘The newspaper‘ reported earlier this week that the coach had allegedly systematically insulted and criticized the physical and sexual orientation of the soccer players, facts aggravated by the alleged sending by the coach of a photograph of sexual content to the entire template.

the club of the F League supported his coach and later a large part of the squad did, although five footballers, in statements sent to Europa Press and those who prefer to remain anonymous have denounced the situation.

One of them confesses to having felt during her stay in the team as if she were in “a prison or a dictatorship” and that she knew “perfectly that what was happening was not normal.” This soccer player points out that, “obviously”, they could not report anything “when your stalker is your boss”, who she also sees as having a lot of influence on “the whole club and part of the town”. «The worst of all this is being the acceptance of the disappointment that I feel with my environment. I never thought I could experience such embarrassing moments of lack of empathy and dignity,” she says.

In addition, it indicates that it has had to “overlook to survive this year” its values ​​and principles, and makes it clear that it is “the first to always seek the truth from the most absolute truth, calm, objectivity and respect.” «When the time comes to tell testimonies, I will be the first to condemn facts that are false, but also the first to raise my voice very loudly to tell all the atrocities that I have heard, suffered and seen this year», he asserts.

Finally, this footballer believes that the only thing that encourages her to continue is “the support” she is receiving from “a lot of people”, many of whom she does not know, and remarks that “the truth only exists when it comes to facts that violate rights basic”.

fear of consequences

Another of those affected claims to have much more support than she has received from “those same people who have cried for the same reasons” as her, and she does not hide that when the information came out she felt “afraid” for not knowing “what consequences” could suffer.

“I was afraid that all my dedication, the work for which I have fought so hard, would be cut short by a situation that I now know is not my fault,” she adds, stressing that all the players have been put “in a situation very complicated all the time”, not only “because of this type of attitude on a daily basis”, but because lately they have tried to “manipulate and extract information”.

For this reason, he criticizes that the players themselves have been “confronted” “as if they were from two sides”, and that it seems that they are “to blame for everything.” “I have nothing to defend myself against, I have kept quiet a lot,” he adds, opining that the fact that the club has “promoted the creation of said statement by the players only corroborates the continuous coercion that exists here».

This player, who makes “the most nervous” is that “if you don’t accept his truth you don’t have anyone to complain to”, confirms that they have suffered “insults, humiliation, disrespect and contempt” and warns that “it is not abuses need to go in 20 directions. With the fact that there is injustice with just one person, it is more than enough reason ».

“But if there are still those who say ‘it’s not a big deal’, ‘it was a joke’ or ‘how sensitive you women are’, they are wrong and it hurts. The damage has already been done and the discomfort that comes from remembering over and over again everything I have suffered and lived through here sadly makes me feel the need for it all to end, yes, with one less friend, but with the truth for ahead,” he says.

“On the edge of the unimaginable”

Another colleague does not forget that they have experienced a situation “on the edge of the unimaginable” and that they had already warned her of “the ‘rarities’ or ‘forms'” of ‘Randri’, detailing that personally “the first months of the competition were the worse” and that “the usual thing” when you get to a new dressing room is that “a feeling of identity is established”.

However, they “didn’t want” the players to get involved, “much less love relationships began due to some kind of ‘trauma’ from the past. He even went so far as to mention that we had not come here to flirt », she adds. All this made her feel “marked by prejudices and devalued as a player. I began to think that perhaps she did not know how to do what they asked me to do, or that she did not even try, “she recalls.

Thus, it became “a more than usual situation” that after a game she was left “in evidence in front of the group” despite the fact that she thought she had done well. «Perhaps I have not suffered comments as denigrating or dirty as my colleaguesbut I have seen them cry for the treatment received, “he highlights.

Now, she is affected, after seeing that “perhaps for the first time” they notice the support that they have “lacked since all this started”, she wants to “do justice”. “For those who had a bad time, for those of us who live it and feel it today, for those who would live it if this had not happened, and even for those who are still not able to see it,” he declares, demanding that professionalism In his sport he must encompass “many more things than a minimum salary or facilities” and focus more on aspects such as “forms or emotional management.”

«It is difficult to express in words everything I have felt since I was in Alhama. All that I am going to express is not even a quarter of how I have felt as an athlete, as a person and above all, as a woman, “explains another of those affected, who arrived at training sessions” scared “by the speech that was He was going to find the coach and that he has reached “the point of not wanting to play to go unnoticed.”

This soccer player states that she has been “screamed, humiliated, ridiculed and disrespected” and that she has had to suffer “in silence” and only with her teammates. She has also felt “coerced and conditioned to speak up” because she had nowhere to turn for fear of “consequences.”

He also talks about how they have “separated and divided” and that “they have created factions themselves.” “That the club has informed the players of said statement from the beginning is further proof that they continually condition us because it was confidential,” she argues, “disappointed because the people you support in those difficult days have lacked courage , sorority and values” and because they “have felt the same or worse” than her. “I got tired of feeling like this and now I just want to do justice with the truth ahead,” she settles.

«There has been a lack of courage, sorority and values»

Finally, the fifth affected by this situation considers it “very complicated” to explain everything that she has experienced within the club, where she has experienced “uncomfortable moments” that pushed her to “not want to play football.”

“The damage and discomfort that this situation has created for us and that even remembering it makes me feel is not going to disappear, but it seemed important to me to make it visible so that it does not happen to more girls,” she concludes.