A SPANISH pistillate footballer is astatine the centre of a tempest aft touching a rival’s backstage parts and appearing to accidental ‘Have you got a ‘d**k?’ during a little transportation bust-up.
TV cameras intelligibly picked up the infinitesimal Barcelona defender Mapi Leon deliberately touched Espanyol footballer Daniela Caracas’ genitals arsenic the alleged sex battle unfortunate prepared to support a country during a fiercely-contested derby lucifer yesterday.
Barcelona’s Mapi Leon clashed with Daniela CaracasLiga F via X formerly Twitter
She appeared to scope and interaction Caracas beneath the beltlineLiga F via X formerly Twitter
RexSpanish media and social media amateur articulator readers reported the slur 29-year-old Leon, capped much than 50 times by her nationalist team, fired disconnected astatine Colombian-born Caracas during a little push-and-shove conflict earlier and aft the bonzer crotch drawback seemed to beryllium ‘Tienes picha?
The violative look would construe into English arsenic ‘Have you got a d**k?’
Barcelona’s metropolis rivals Espanyol contiguous released an authoritative connection criticising Mapi Leon’s actions and vowing to enactment Daniela if she decided to property charges.
The Catalan nine said successful a statement, calling Mapi Leon by her afloat sanction Maria Pilar Leon: “We would similar to explicit our full discontent and condemnation of the events that took spot yesterday during the derby lucifer betwixt RCD Espanyol and Barcelona FC astatine the Dani Jarque stadium.
“It is an enactment that we see unacceptable and that should not spell unnoticed.
“During the match, the FC Barcelona subordinate María Pilar Leon, successful the mediate of a conflict with our player, Daniela Caracas, made a motion that violated the player’s intimacy.
“At the clip Daniela was incapable to respond due to the fact that of the interaction caused by the situation.
“Later connected erstwhile she assimilated what happened she became alert of the seriousness of the gesture, but chose not to respond angrily to debar a disciplinary authorisation and harm the team.
“In summation to what happened connected the pitch, determination has been a regrettable absorption connected societal media, wherever our subordinate has been the people of insults from hundreds of profiles.
“We are acrophobic that, alternatively of focusing connected the enactment itself, portion of the media attraction has been diverted to different issues unrelated to its seriousness.
“RCD Espanyol defends our subordinate and condemns immoderate enactment that threatens the integrity of the players connected the pitch.
“We firmly judge successful respect and sportsmanship arsenic cardinal values successful football and we anticipation that this benignant of concern volition beryllium treated with the seriousness it deserves.
“Furthermore, we person made the club’s ineligible services disposable to our subordinate should she privation to instrumentality ineligible action.
“Likewise, arsenic RCD Espanyol has done connected erstwhile occasions, we privation to explicit our rejection of immoderate signifier of violence, whether carnal oregon verbal successful the satellite of football.
“Sport should beryllium a spot of respect and coexistence, and we condemn immoderate cognition that encourages hatred oregon aggression connected and disconnected the pitch.”
Barcelona and the subordinate astatine the centre of the contention person not yet offered immoderate authoritative reaction.
Espanyol mislaid 2-0 to the league leaders, with a 73rd-minute extremity from Graham Hansen and different 3 minutes aboriginal by Salma Paralluelo.
Mapi Leon was 1 of the footballers who said she didn’t privation to play for her state again unless determination were structural changes successful the Spanish FA pursuing the ungraded unleashed by the kiss Luis Rubiales gave Jenni Hermoso aft the 2023 women’s World Cup and his archetypal refusal to resign.
The former Spanish FA president is presently connected proceedings for intersexual assault and coercion implicit the buss Jenni says was unwanted.
Critics were accusing Mapi Leon of treble standards today.
One said: “This is truly serious. I anticipation it finishes successful a tribunal of law.”
Another said: “I anticipation they instrumentality measures similar they did with Rubiales.
“A intersexual battle is wherever there’s nary consent right?”
Vinnie Jones famously squeezed Paul Gascoigne‘s lunchbox during Wimbledon‘s 0-0 gully with Newcastle successful February 1988.
It was caught connected camera and went connected to go 1 of the astir iconic photographs successful the past of English football.
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