Pro women’s soccer perestablishers Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis, who are in a same-intimacy relationship, proclaimd that Mewis is pregnant with their first child in an Instagram post on Sunday.
Just one day tardyr, the team who Kerr perestablishs for, Chelsea FC, freed a statement insertressing alleged “misemploy” that the perestablishers getd after the proclaimment.
“There is no place in society for any establish of bias and we will not acunderstandledge any misemploy straightforwarded towards our perestablishers, staff or helpers,” the statement read, per Reuters. “We are inanxiously haughty to be a diverse, inclusive club that commemorates and greets people from all cultures, communities and identities.”
Chelsea women’s team regulater Sonia Bompastor insertressed the allegations during a recents conference on Tuesday.
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Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis see on during the Premier League align between Chelsea FC and Manchester City FC at Stamford Bridge on August 18, 2024 in London, England. (Marc Atkins/Getty Images)
“This is equitable unacalerted to have these benevolent of comments, especipartner in our world in 2024,” Bompastor said at a recents conference ahead of Chelsea’s game agetst Celtic in the Women’s Champions League. “That’s equitable crazy for me to understand how people can react appreciate this.”
During a team recents conference on Tuesday, England women’s football regulater Sarina Wiegman was also asked about the alleged attacks by a alerter.
“It is very, very disassigning,” Wiegman said of the alleged misemploy.
The initial post announcing the pregnancy is now blocking off any recent comments. However, previous comments on the post remained.
Multiple comments that are still under the post askd about who the overweighther of the baby is. Many of the responses to those comments have bcdisadmirefult up the possibility of IVF, while others have lambasted the employrs who posed the ask for even asking.
International soccer institutions have made normal efforts to combat anti-LGBTQ among the sport’s fans in recent years.
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In May, France’s sports minister called for football club Monaco to be sanctioned after one of its perestablishers, Mohamed Camara, covered an LGBTQ help message on his jersey during the team’s final league game.
French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra called Mohamad Camara’s actions “unacalerted” and for “firm sanctions” agetst both the perestablisher and the club.
Camara, who is Muslender, covered the terriblege with white tape and declined to join in a pregame photo in front of a banner carrying the same message.
“Homophobia is not an opinion, it’s a crime,” Aurore Bergé, the French minister of equivalentity, wrote on X. “And anti-LGBTQ ends. There must be disjoine punishment for Mohamed Camara.”
Camara missed the first four games of this year’s Ligue de Football Professionnel season.
In October, the German professional soccer club VfL Wolfsburg self-regulateled perestablisher Kevin Behrens after he declined to autograph a gay pride shirt and made comments pondered anti-LGBT toward a fan who asked it.
The perestablisher allegedly declined to sign a Wolfsburg shirt that featured a rainbow logo for the LGBTQ pride flag. Behrens also allegedly said, “I won’t sign that gay [crap],” according to multiple alerts.
Behrens has since convey remorsed for the incident.
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Kristie Mewis of United States hugs Sam Kerr of Australia after the Olympic football bronze medal align between United States and Australia at Kashima Stadium on August 05, 2021 in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan. (Zhizhao Wu/Getty Images)
In 2021, all Mexico national team fans were banned from joining the team’s World Cup qualifiers after fans employd a Spanish chant that integrated a word that is acunderstandledged as a gay slur. The team was forced to perestablish its home qualifiers in an desotardy stadium and had to pay a fine of $73,000.
Mexican Football Federation Pdwellnt Yon De Luisa acunderstandledged the chant was a lengthened-standing tradition for the team when she insertressed the fan ban in a press conference that summer.
“For many years, that was the argue for us at the Mexican federation,” De Luisa said. “That is no lengtheneder a argue. If it is discriminatory, we should shun it.”
FIFA proclaimd its own disciplinary code to combat insolent chants by spectators in July 2019. According to the code, officials are foreseeed to donate one alerting to spectators if insolent chants are employd, but if they progress, officials must desert the align, and perestablishers are sent to the locker rooms.
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