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On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, there was painful news for the world of football, when Diego Armando Maradona died at the age of sixty.
Maradona left by surprise, and mourning poems and displays of honor poured over him on all sides, Argentines fought to get close to his body, and football turned black as never before.
However, in an unremarkable part of the world, on Saturday, November 28, a friendly match was held between the Deportivo La Coruña women’s team and the submerged Piajes Interrias women’s team, located in the third division, in the province of Galicia in the Kingdom of Spain.
The match ended with Deportivo winning 10 unanswered goals, but the result was never the most important thing that happened in that match, but rather what Paula Dabena of Piajes Interrias did before the start of the match.
The 24-year-old teacher refused to observe a minute of silence in the spirit of Maradona, and sat on the stadium lawn and turned her back on the stands in a protest poster.
After the match, Paola justified her action on her social media account, saying that she refused to honor “a person who raped, sexually abused children and assaulted.”
In a few hours, the shooting spread across the world, because Paula simply took a completely different direction than the one the world had been following since the moment Maradona’s death was announced.
That image generated many negative emotions, and threw the player many death threats, but on the other hand, it was a significantly positive historical event for the submerged Spanish club.
Speaking to the newspaper “AS”, Enrique Rodríguez, president of Piachis Interrias, explains how his club benefited greatly economically from the inadvertent behavior of Paula Dabina.
Enrique said: “Everything is crazy. Last Monday, the manager of our social media accounts called me and told me that they were receiving a lot of requests for T-shirts with Paula Dapina’s name and number.”
And he added: “No one ever expected such reactions, during the shot I was talking to the head of Deportivo’s women’s team, and I saw Paula sitting down and I didn’t pay attention to her. The next morning when I woke up I received a torrent of messages about what It had happened, I was amazed, I called Paula and she told me everything. Thing, and I got my permission to do interviews to explain her point of view. “
He explained: “The number of our followers on social media has skyrocketed, and the demand for the team’s jerseys has increased tremendously and the number of subscribers to the club has increased.”
He explained, “We used to have a small store that contained around 50 shirts for the older members, and now there were only 8 out of 50 left, so I have to contact the factory to make a new set of shirts to meet the growing demand.”
He mentioned a funny attitude: “I received a call from an external number, I did not want to answer for fear that it was one of the threats coming from Argentina, but it turned out that he was a Spaniard living in Miami and wanted to buy 3 shirts for Paula Dapina, and also we receive purchase orders from Brazil. “
He admitted: “We are a modest club with a small board of directors, and achieving this is amazing to us. It was impossible to imagine such wide worldwide popularity after only 5 years of establishing the club. This is the biggest event in history. of our club “.
He revealed: “We received requests for membership in the club from people from outside Galicia, all this without doing anything at all.”
He stressed: “The club does not want to use the image of Paula Dapina (for more publicity). She is the hero of the incident, of course, and we support her in her brave position, but we do not want to exploit her.”
He explained: “If she had consulted me before taking this action, I would not have prevented it. It is a very respectable position.”
He concluded: “We respect and support Paola and we are very proud of her courage. Without a doubt, Paula is the heroine of the most historic moment of our club.”
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For the club president, that was an image, purely from an economic perspective, but from Paula’s perspective the situation was, of course, different.
Paula Dabina gave an extensive interview to “S” several days ago, in which she explained her feminist tendencies and her motivations to undertake a similar behavior that made her know for months of fire.
Paula reveals about the attack I was subjected to after the incident: “I had to allocate my accounts on social networks, because I was not the object of harassment alone, but also my colleagues, since they accessed their accounts through me. I also received death threats, and threats like “I’ll find your address and come to your house and break your legs.”
He added: “I did not expect it to spread in this way, I thought it would stay among my followers on Instagram, even when the photo was published in the Pontypedra Beda magazine where my sister works, I thought it would only spread within Pontypedra, but suddenly , it became global news. “
I wondered: “A few days before it was the International Day Against Gender Violence, and I think that making a minute of silence on Maradona is a hypocritical act, because he is an aggressor, as long as we do not keep a minute of silence on the victims of sexual violence “.
And he regretted: “The death of Maradona, which occurred on the International Day Against Gender Violence, completely covered the victims of male violence, and the focus shifted completely to Maradona, the day completely stripped of its essence.”
Paula was asked if she had gotten permission from her club management to do this, and she explained that she didn’t have time for that in the first place.
Paula remembers what happened: “I didn’t know we were going to have a minute of silence from the ground up except when we were going to the stadium on the bus. At that moment I told them that I was going to protest, but I didn’t know how to act. I think not to disrespect anyone. “
She continued: “My colleagues didn’t tell me anything at all, that they always respect me and realize that I am a feminist.”
She explained her social role in gender equality: “Society forces girls to play with (Barbie) and love the color pink and be sensitive. In return, it pushes boys to love soccer and cars and to be strong and brave. My battle is to remove these patterns and get the boys to practice. Girls are what they want. “
She expressed her opinion about Diego Maradona: “Maradona for me, on a football level, had wonderful skills. But on a human level he didn’t do what makes him likeable after the facts of sexual abuse and child abuse came to light, and this contradicts my thoughts and what I’m fighting for. To observe a minute of silence in his honor would be contrary to my principles. I couldn’t do that. “
And he emphasized: “It is not possible to separate Maradona, the player, from the person, Maradona, because the player is a person before being a player, especially if he is a role model for many people, as is the case with Maradona. Each person is free to do for himself, but the moment he attacks other people, this is something that cannot be allowed. “
And he admitted: “I was very surprised that there was not another player who refused to keep a minute’s silence on Maradona in the rest of the games.”
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Maradona’s life off the pitch was not entirely smooth, and his relationship with women was no exception according to some of his accounts.
Rossio Oliva, former player and the last to openly date her, Maradona, accused him on several occasions of assaulting her.
And in 2014, a video clip of Maradona hitting Rossio Oliva went viral.
Claudia Viavagni, his ex-wife, in turn, accused him of assaulting him in the past, as his lawyer claimed in 2019 that Diego “harassed her and practiced systematic psychological violence against her.”
Maradona also died, leaving pending the cases against him for having sexual relations with a minor, since a woman named Lara demanded that her son be attributed to Maradona, a matter that generated controversy because the moment of her pregnancy coincided with that of being younger.
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