Getafe have eliminated the title of Alfonso Perez from their stadium following some sexist remarks from the previous Actual Madrid and Barcelona participant this week.
The membership’s floor, which is owned by town council and leased to Getafe, has been referred to as the Coliseum Alfonso Perez since its development in 1998 after the city’s most-famous sportsman.
Any longer, the stadium will probably be recognized merely because the Coliseum after the native authorities determined the 51-year-old’s title can be dropped following some controversial comparisons this week between women and men’s soccer.
“I feel that girls’s and males’s soccer can’t be in contrast in any respect as a result of the whole lot depends upon the revenue you generate and the media impression,” Perez advised El Mundo .
“And there’s no comparability there. You may’t complain about what ladies’s soccer at present is. They’ve advanced however they will need to have their ft on the bottom and know that they can’t be in contrast in any sense to a male footballer.”
Getafe’s council stated it desires the stadium to be “an instance to transmit constructive values of sport corresponding to equality, solidarity and respect” following the change.
Getafe mayor Sara Hernandez has since spoken of her disappointment over the remarks made by Perez.
“With what has occurred this summer time and the instance of equality given by ladies soccer to our society, it’s unhappy that our most well-known footballer and Olympic soccer champion, Alfonso Perez, had spoken on this method that goes in a course fully opposite to the values that sport promotes,” she advised Cadena SER.
Getafe president Angel Torres was the primary of any in LaLiga to demand the resignation of disgraced RFEF chief Luis Rubiales following his unsolicited kiss on the lips of Jenni Hermoso in Spain’s Ladies’s World Cup celebrations.
Nonetheless, the Madrid membership got here in for big criticism simply over per week later for his or her signing of Mason Greenwood on mortgage from Manchester United after sexual assault costs towards the ahead have been dropped earlier this yr.
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Manchester United outcast Mason Greenwood signed for Getafe on deadline day in a shock transfer.
The deal was defended by coach Jose Bordalas, who stated Greenwood is ‘a free individual’ and insisted that the membership would assist the younger ahead to adapt in Spain.
However the 21-year-old was met with ‘die’ chants from Osasuna followers on his debut for the Madrid aspect.