Football is a sport that started generally as belonging to the male folks with so much low patronage in term of support and sponsorship by big brands when it comes to women football. But since the start of the 21 century, many women games are increasingly receiving much attention from football associations’ as well private individuals.
It is often a bit abstract to see a female coming to the viewing canters to watch and talk about football and those that do come are mainly those that decided to follow their boyfriends or male relative to relax or pass time. But they will be much more of it when a female will mount the center stage match day game.
Announcement
The start of the 2019/2020 la liga season in Spain will see for the first time in the league history a female coming up in a male game as the central referee. The Spanish Football Federation announced on their web page on Tuesday. ‘’The assistant referee will be the first woman to debut in top flight’’ as quoted on the web page.
Marisa Villa was the only woman who has came close to achieve this feat but was unable to reach her target in 2007 league season when she was on the list of officiating officers but was unable to pass the compulsory physical fitness test to authenticate referees thereby disqualifying her.
Guadalupe Porras Ayuso who was an assistant referee will get the node next season at the centre woman haven worked in the men’s second division of the league called the Segunda league for good two seasons. Her other experience in the game was some years ago when Guadalupe Porras Ayuso spent eight season in the third (Segunda B) ties of the male league as assistant referee.
Appraisals
The announcement has been received with applauds from the football world as a good development that other league board associations should emulate to give the women some sense of belonging in the round lather game. This is a sign of gender equality as advocated by many private individuals and organisations to bring the female football a per with their male counterpart.
Objections
Well, the new didn’t go down well 100% with some male fans who have reservations about the development. Some of them are of the opinion that the female referee may not match up with the tempo of some of the matches as she may to be on top gear to cover the game proceeding as well may not be able to handle the heat of the male players that come she heat when they are pissed off. While other say that some player behaviour towards her may be counted as abuse which ordinarily will be waved off by a male referee. A microscopic few say that her feminine feature altogether may be a distraction to both players and supporter in the game. Hahah, funny though.
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