Cádiz CF tries to make an impact on Monday, November 6, in the 12th matchday of the League with the difficult, but not impossible, mission that faces on the Getafe ground.
The yellow team faces the Madrid team in the same stadium than in previous seasons when he was a visitor. But this time he appears in a venue that changed its name just a month ago.
The Cadist sanctuary is not the only one that has changed its name in recent years (from Ramón de Carranza to Nuevo Mirandilla. The Getafe stadium has stopped being called ‘Coliseum Alfonso Pérez’ and it has remained as ‘Coliseum’ without the name of the former international footballer who played for Real Madrid, Betis, Barcelona and Olympique de Marseille.
Why does it no longer have the stadium the name of the former player Who was born in the city located south of the Community of Madrid?
The City Council, owner of the facilities, decided to withdraw the name of Alfonso Pérez at the beginning of last October after a statement by the former footballer in an interview in the newspaper ‘El Mundo’.
Alfonso said that “I would like to collect from Cristiano Ronaldo, but I’m not that good. It is what it is. Everyone has to know where they are. They can’t complain. “Women’s football has evolved, but they must have their feet on the ground and know that they cannot be equated in any sense with a male footballer.”
The former player considers that “cannot be comparable women’s and men’s football not at all, because everything depends on the income you generate and the media impact.
The statements led to Getafe City Councilgoverned by the PSOE and Podemos, to remove the name of the former player from the stadium that went from ‘Coliseum Alfonso Pérez’ to ‘Coliseum’.
From the City Council they explained that “the council transferred to the club that this municipal facilityon loan to Getafe CF, be an example to transmit positive sports values such as equality, solidarity and respect.”
The mayor of Getafe, Sara Hernandezsaid that Alfonso Pérez’s ideas “do not fit” in the municipality.
The councilor pointed out that “it saddens me that she says that her teammates on the Spanish team have nothing to complain about in the world of football. There have been sexual assaults, the players have denounced absolutely sexist attitudes and They have had to demand minimum working conditionswhere I have missed that such award-winning footballers as Alfonso Pérez had come out to support their teammates.
2023-11-06 10:31:14
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