According to a report by NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung, sexist and derogatory comments are still part of everyday life in German women’s football.
Berlin – “Women’s football is like horse racing. Bremen’s Bundesliga player Saskia Matheis reported in the ARD magazine “Panaroma”, which will be broadcast this Thursday (11.15 p.m.) after the German quarter-finals in England, “Only on donkeys”. Ex-national player Tabea Kemme heard this sentence about a teammate: “She’s really hot too, isn’t she? I would also like to iron them out.”
Every case of “border crossings that are also perceived is one too many,” said General Secretary Heike Ullrich from the German Football Association. “That has to be addressed.” She doesn’t perceive sexism as a specific problem in football, but as a social issue. “It is the task of all of us, not just in football, in sport, but in our society, to draw attention to these transgressions,” said Ullrich. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a boy or a girl, man or woman, to say: I didn’t like what you just said.”
According to the pre-announcement for the program, national goalkeeper Almuth Schult said that she had been asked by a journalist: “How does it feel when you are one of the few in the team who loves a man and not a woman?” Another Bundesliga player speaks in the “Panorama” -Report anonymously of a trainer’s limit violations. “He kept making comments about a fellow player’s butt.” He looked at another player and remarked on how sexy she was. Teammates and supervisors would have confirmed the coach’s sexist sayings, as the NDR wrote. dpa
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