By CARLOS RODRIGUEZ and MARIA VERZA, Related Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Soccer star Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez is going through a backlash from Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and others for remarks posted on his social media accounts about gender roles.
“Chicharito is an excellent soccer participant,” Sheinbaum stated at a information convention Wednesday. “However in relation to his opinion on ladies … he nonetheless has rather a lot to be taught.”
She described the previous Mexico worldwide’s concepts as “very sexist.”
The previous Manchester United and Actual Madrid striker, who performs for Chivas, is injured and missed the primary two matches of Mexico’s Apertura event.
Over the weekend, he posted a number of reels and movies, primarily on Instagram.
“Don’t be afraid to be ladies, to permit yourselves to be led by a person,” the 37-year-old Hernandez stated. “Girls, you’re failing, you’re eradicating masculinity, making society hypersensitive.”
Hernandez, the all-time main scorer for the Mexican nationwide crew with 52 objectives, returned to Mexico final yr on a two-year take care of Chivas, the crew the place he started his skilled profession in 2006.
“You ladies have to be taught to simply accept and honor masculinity,” he stated in one other considered one of his posts.
In one other, he stated to the digicam: “You desire a man to offer, however for you, cleansing is patriarchal oppression… fascinating.”
Sheinbaum, a 63-year-old scientist, was elected final yr as the primary feminine president within the nation’s 200-year historical past.
“I’m a mom, I’m a grandmother, I’m additionally a housewife,” the president added Wednesday. “However I’m additionally the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Girls might be no matter we wish.”
Hernandez is a divorced father of two who has a behavior of kneeling in the midst of the pitch to wish earlier than the beginning of matches. He started creating content material for a YouTube channel the place he portrayed his life as a participant with West Ham and his marriage.
Hernandez had a low profile on social media earlier than hiring life coach Diego Dreyfus, to whom many attribute a lot of “Chicharito’s” new persona.
Criticism adopted his current statements, with some urging him to restrict himself to soccer, on condition that his efficiency since returning to the Mexican league final yr has not been as anticipated.
Hernandez, who additionally performed for Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham and Sevilla, has scored simply two objectives in 25 matches in his first two tournaments again in Mexico.
A couple of hours after the president’s remarks, Hernandez was fined by the by the Gender and Range Fee of the Mexican Soccer Federation and by Chivas.
“A couple of days in the past, on the social platform Javier Chicharito Hernández made statements that promote sexist stereotypes which can be thought-about media violence and go in opposition to gender equality within the sport,” an announcement from the federation stated.
The federation didn’t disclose the quantity of the tremendous however stated {that a} extra extreme penalty awaits if he does it once more.
Chivas didn’t point out Hernandez by identify in saying its tremendous, solely saying that the crew is in opposition to “habits that reinforces stereotypes that restrict the liberty, respect, and full improvement of all folks, each inside and out of doors of sports activities.”
That is the primary time that the federation has sanctioned a participant for misogynistic feedback. Earlier this yr businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the proprietor of the Mazatlán and Puebla golf equipment, made harsh statements about feminine journalists and was left unpunished.
Chicharito has been banned from the nationwide crew since 2019 after he, alongside different gamers, organized a non-authorized celebration in New York after a recreation in opposition to the USA.
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