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A player from Viajes InterRías, a second-tier national soccer team from Pontevedra, turned her back on her teammates and Deportivo Abanca’s rivals in the minute of silence that was observed by former Argentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradona before the friendly that they faced in the Ciudad Deportiva de Abegondo.
“I would do it a thousand times more”, the athlete has published in her account on social networks, in which she has become a trend for her gesture.
Paula Dapena, who is 24 years old, refused to respect the tribute to Maradona and, in protest, sat on the field, with her back to the rest, while the two teams formed in the main field of the Deportivo de Deportivo training facilities. La Coruña to remember the Argentine star.
The Galician team kept that minute of silence for Maradona in Abegondo and also in the Riazor Stadium before the Segunda B match with Racing de Ferrol.
A gesture that the Pontevedra team footballer disagreed with, who explained to the PontevedraViva website her reasons for rejecting the minute of silence for someone she considered “a rapist, pedophile, whore and abuser”.
The player disagreed that a minute of silence be observed for Maradona and not for the victims of gender violence, whose international day was celebrated last Wednesday.
Dapena highlighted Maradona’s soccer virtues, but said that the former soccer player cannot be forgiven “for all the atrocities he committed off the field.”
After the minute of silence, his team was beaten by Deportivo Abanca (10-0), which is the bottom of Primera Iberdrola with eight defeats in as many games.
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