He started again. Accustomed to questionable media outings on women’s football, Guy Roux once again slipped up in an interview given to L’Est Eclair at the end of last week. The historic coach of AJ Auxerre had started well, claiming to have “a lot of respect for these young women who practice their favorite sport”. Before delivering his analysis on the differences between female athletes and male athletes.
“But if you ask me if the women’s matches are spectacular, I refer you to the D1 matches which are played in front of 800 spectators,” he replied. At one time, I met a European 100m champion in athletics. She had admitted that, despite all possible training, Bolt would always put her 12 or 14 meters on the distance. Men and women are not made the same way, not with the same fabrics. »
This is not his first attempt
“A woman is made to give birth to children, with a larger pelvis,” continued the 87-year-old man. And football is not made for wide pelvises. Our U14s (players under 14) beat our senior women recently. As the girls are now playing in the second division, it is undoubtedly the U15s who would beat them today. The best female soccer players are built like boys. »
The Auxerre players currently occupy the leadership position in the Second League (Women’s D2) and are ideally placed to move up to the Arkema Premier League.
Guy Roux had already made comments deemed sexist on the sidelines of Djibril Cissé’s jubilee in May 2025. “It’s much slower. We see the wing changes, they don’t eat up other people’s places. Do you want me to make a bold comparison? It looks like a women’s football match,” he said.
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