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Paula Dapena, 24 years old and a player of the Viajes Interrías FF club (Spanish women’s third division), refused to pay tribute to Diego Maradona in a friendly against Deportivo de La Coruña (first division) in Abegondo, with victory for the latter 10-0 in a friendly match.
While her teammates and their opponents stood in line to observe a minute of silence in tribute to the soccer legend, Paula Dapena She was sitting with her back to the stands, in the opposite direction to her companions, as a visible gesture of dissatisfaction.
“For the victims a minute of silence was not kept, so obviously I am not willing to keep a minute of silence for an abuser and that it should not be done for the victims,” the soccer player later explained to the Galician web newspaper Pontevedra Viva, alluding to the recent International Day for the Eradication of Violence against Women (November 25), which did not motivate any similar gesture.
Paula Dapena reproaches Maradona his treatment of women and had announced that he was going to make a gesture to express his disagreement, after learning that that minute of silence was going to take place.
He recognized the “spectacular soccer qualities and skills” of the Argentine star, but says that “you cannot forgive all the atrocities he committed” off the pitch. “To be a player, you have to be first person and have values beyond skills,” he said.
ICARDI’S SMILE
CAPTURE His gesture was reminiscent of the Argentine attacker Mauro Icardi, who during an act of tribute that his club, the French PSG, paid to Diego Maradona during training last Thursday, was smiling, visibly contrasting with the contrite faces of his teammates.
The photo showed the entire first division squad of the French team with the Argentine flag held in the center by Angel Di Maria Y Mauro Icardi and Diego’s number 10 shirt in the hands of Leandro Paredes. “Goodbye, Diego”, was the epigraph that accompanied the publication.
The gesture of Icardi provoked a large number of comments on social media criticizing the forward. Anyway, there were those who defended him, remembering that at some point Maradona He called him a “traitor” for taking the wife of his friend Maxi López. In fact, in Argentina the verb is used “Icardear” to refer to the one who messes with a friend’s wife.
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