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Last Updated: March 10, 2024, 00:01 IST
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An official at Spanish soccer membership Sporting Gijón has apologized for a video meant to commemorate International Women’s Day that sparked widespread criticism.
MADRID: An official at Spanish soccer membership Sporting Gijón has apologized for a video meant to commemorate International Women’s Day that sparked widespread criticism.
The membership’s quick video featured a younger woman portray a lady image on its area. But the opening sequence confirmed the woman on her palms and knees eradicating the unique white traces with a brush.
Among the critics of the video, Gijón’s mayor Carmen Moriyón requested publicly for it to be taken down.
“I find his video inappropriate and that it does not represent equality in sports or in society overall,” Moriyón stated on X, previously often known as Twitter.
Sporting’s communications director Carlos Andrés Llamas apologized.
“I am responsible for the video and assume the error,” he stated on X, including that the sequence of the woman erasing the traces “was not a necessary sequence. It was a poorly executed idea. I am sorry.”
Second-tier Sporting re-posted an edited model of the video on X that doesn’t embrace the opening sequence.
Spain has for years been some of the lively international locations in celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, when hundreds of individuals take part marches throughout the southern European nation.
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